Drowned Lovers - Kate Rusby

[00:22]Willie sits in his stable door,
[00:24]and he's combing his coal black steed.
[00:27]He's doubting on fair Margaret's love,
[00:29]and his heart begins to bleed.
[00:32]\"Give corn unto my horse,mother,
[00:35]and meat to my man,john.
[00:37]And I'll away to fair Margaret's bower
[00:40]before the night comes on.\"
[00:42]\"Stay at home with me,dear Willie.
[00:45]Oh stay at home with me,
[00:47]and the very best cock in all the roost
[00:50]your own supper will be.\"
[00:52]\"For all your cocks and all your roosts,I value not a pin.
[00:57]And I'll away to fair Margaret's bower
[00:59]before the night comes in.\"
[01:02]\"Well if you go to fair Margaret's bower
[01:05]Without the leave of me.
[01:07]In the deepest part of the Clyde water,
[01:10]then drowned you will be.\"
[01:12]\"Oh,the good steed that I ride upon,
[01:15]cost me thrice thirty pounds.
[01:17]And I'll put trust in his swift feed
[01:19]to take me safe and sound.\"
[01:22]He's ridden o'er yon high,high hill,
[01:24]and down yon dowey den.
[01:27]And the rushin' in of the Clyde water
[01:29]woukd fear five hundred men.
[01:31]\"Oh,roaring Clyde,you roar so loud,
[01:34]your steams are wondrous stong.
[01:36]Make me a wreck as I come back,
[01:39]but spare me as I'm gone.\"
[02:01]When he's got to fair Margate's bower,
[02:03]he's turled low on the pin.
[02:06]\"Rise up,rise up me May Margaret,
[02:08]rise up and let me in.\"
[02:11]\"Oh,who is this at me bower door
[02:13]Calling May Margaret's name?\"
[02:16]\"Oh,it's only your first love,little William
[02:18]this night come to her home.
[02:22]Open your gates this night,oh open and let me in.
[02:26]For my boots are full of the Clybe,
[02:29]and I'm frozen to the skin.
[02:31]\"My barns are full of corn,Willie,
[02:34]and my stable's full of hay,
[02:36]my bower's full of gentlemen
[02:38]and they won't remove 'till day.\"
[02:40]\"Fare thee well to you May Margaret,
[02:44]fare thee well and adieu.
[02:46]For I have earned my mother's own curse
[02:48]by coming this night to you.\"
[02:51]He's ridden o'er yon high,high hill,
[02:53]and down yon dowey den.
[02:56]And the rushing in of the Clyde water
[02:58]took Willie's hat from him.
[03:01]He's leaned him over his saddle bow
[03:03]to catch his hat again .
[03:06]And the rushing in of the Clyde water
[03:09]took Willie's cane from him.
[03:11]He's leaned him over his saddle bow
[03:13]to catch his cane by force.
[03:15]And the rushing in of the Clyde water
[03:17]took Willie from his horse.
[03:30]The very hour this young man sank
[03:32]into the part so deep.
[03:34]Up and awoke Miss May Margaret
[03:37]out from her dreary sleep.
[03:39]\"Come here,come here,me mother dear,
[03:41]and read to me my dream,
[03:44]I dreamt my love was at our gate
[03:46]and no one let him in.\"
[03:49]\"Lie there,lie there,me May Margaret,
[03:51]lie there and take your rest.
[03:53]For since your love was at our gate
[03:56]it's but two quarters past.\"
[03:58]Nimbly,nimbly rose she up unto the water's brim.
[04:01]And the louder that this young girl cried,
[04:05]the louder grew the wind.
[04:08]The very first step that she went in.
[04:10]She's up into her feet.
[04:13]And it's \"Oh and alas!\" this young girl cried,
[04:15]\"Your water's wondrous deep.\"
[04:17]Oh the very next step that she went in,
[04:20]she's up unto her knees,
[04:22]Cried she, \"I would go farther in,
[04:25]if I my true lover could see.\"
[04:28]The very next step that she went in,
[04:29]she's up unto her chin.
[04:32]In the deepest part of the Clyde water,
[04:34]she's found sweet William in.
[04:36]Saying you have had a cruel mother Willie,
[04:39]and I have had another.
[04:41]And now we'll sleep in the Clyde water,
[04:43]like sister and like brother.
[04:52]and I have had another.
[04:54]And now we'll sleep in the Clyde water,
[04:56]like sister and like brother.