The Summer's Morning

X:58
T:The Summer's Morning
T:Durham song from printed collection lent by John Polworth
F:http://www.vwml.org/record/COL/1/37
S:From John Polworth, Durham
Z:Transcribed by David Jacobs, June 2014 
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:G
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W:
W:It was one summers morning as I went o'er the moss
W:I had no thoughts of 'listing till the soldier did one cross,
W:They kindly did invite me to a flowing bowl and down
W:The advanced, they advanced, they advanced, they advanced
W:They advanced me some money- ten guineas and a crown
W:
W:It's true my love has listed, He wears a white cockade
W:He is a handsome young man, besides a roving blade
W:"  " "    "       "     "     and he's gone to serve the king
W:Oh my very heart is breaking, for the loss of him.
W:
W:My Love is tall and handsome, and comely for to see
W:And by a sad misfortune a soldier now is he
W:I hope the man that listed him amy not prosper night nor day
W:For I wish that, for I wish that etc.
W:For I wish that the Holanders may sink him in the sea
W:
W:Oh may he never prosper, oh may he never thrive
W:Nor anything he takes in hand so long as he's alive
W:May the very grass the treads upon the ground refuse to grow
W:Since he's been etc
W:Since he's been the only cause of my sorrow grief and woe
W:
W:The he pulled out a hankerchief to wipe her flowing eyes
W:"Leave off those lamentation, likewise those sorrowful cries,
W:Leave your grief and sorrow, while I march o'er the plain,
W:We'll be married, we'll be married etc
W:We'll be married when I return again.
W:
W:O now my love has listed and for him I will [rool]
W:I'll write his name on every tree that grows in yonder grove
W:When the huntsman he does hollow, and the hounds do sweetly cry
W:To remind me etc.
W:To remind me of my ploughboy until the day I die

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