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Not only did mom find me the lyrics, she called and serenaded me ^-^

My mom rules :D

John Barbour or Willy O Winsbury, Pamela Morgan and Anita Best, from The Coulour of Amber

It's of a lady in the west country
She was clothed all in green
And she was sitting in her own cottage door
As she watched her father's ship sailing in,
As she watched her father's ship sailing in.


Oh daughter daughter her father he cried
What makes you look so pale
And the cause of your trouble I'd like to know
My Willie's so long at sea
My Willie's so long at sea.


Is he commander aboard of that ship
Or a man of a high degree
Or is he one of my 7 sailor boys
That plows the ragin' sea
"


No he's not commander on board of a ship
Nor a man of high degree
But he is one of your 7 sailor boys
That plows the ragin' sea
"


Oh daughter oh daughter the father cried
If it's true what you're telling to me
Then tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock
Tis hanged your Willie shall be
"


Oh father oh father the daughter she cried
Never known to speak so free
If you go and murder my own true love
You'll get no good of me
No, "


So he called down his sailor men
By one, by two, by three
Young Willie always used to be the first
But the last come down was he
Yes (no but)"


Well he come down, a trippin down
He was clothed all in silk
With his red rosy cheeks and his curly curly hair
And his skin so white as milk
"


Her father looked at him with a smile
And to his daughter did say
If I was a woman as I am a man
His bedfellow I would be
Yes "


So will you marry my daughter Jane
Will you take her by the hand
Will you give up plowing the salt salt sea
And go head over all my land
"


Yes I will marry your daughter he said
And I'll take her by the hand
And I'll give up plowing the salt salt sea
But to hell with all your land
Yes (no but)"


For if you can give her one guinea
I can give her thirty and three
Although you call me a poor sailor lad
That plows the ragin' sea
"