Lyr/Tune Add: The Banks of Coquet

Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE BANKS OF COQUET
From: *#1 PEASANT*
Date: 10 Jun 04 - 12:39 PM

The Banks of the Coquet

As I was a walking one evening alone,
Down by the banks of Coquet I heard a fine song,
She's the beautifullest damsel that ever I did see,
She was walking for pleasure the same road as I.

I boldly step'd up to her said I my pretty maid,
How far art thou going no answer she made;
But still she kept singing, still keeping up the song,
By the bonny banks of Coquet as we walked along.

With rapture I fell on her footstep a trace,
Desiring this fair maid would not take this amiss,
Then hand and hand we join'd still keeping up the song,
By the bonny banks of Coquet as we walked along.

Oh where is thy dwelling, sweet lasse tell to me,
That I may partake of your sweet company;
It wo'd ease my fond heart, or forever I'm undone,
By the bonny banks of Coqauet quite distracted I run.

My dwelling said she from this it is a mile,
I live with my mammy, I am her only child;
No father have I, death has made him his own,
Which with sorrow makes me wander these banks all alone.

Then I beg'd of the lasse a time for to keep,
All on the banks of Couet again for to meet;
But she's turned away and her answer she's made none,
And she's left me for to wander these banks all alone.

Oh! then said the lasse it's time that we were gone,
That true lovers were parted and gone to their home,
By the sweet pleasant river she has walked along,
And away to bonny Brinkburn this damsel is gone.

In verse 1 sometimes I at the end is replaced with me.

Hepple wrote: "I could give a short history of the rfemale alluded to in the song (as handed down to me by her relatives) but it is perhaps better not to make use of names on account of her surviving friends.

X: 1
T:The Banks of Coquet
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Polwarth
K:D
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