The Butcher Boy versuri

Versuri The Ludlows – The Butcher Boy lyrics

In More Street where I did dwell
A butcher boy I loved right well
He courted me my life away
And now with me he will not stay

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
I wish I was a maid again
But a maid again I’ll ne’er will be
Till cherries grow on an apple tree

She went upstairs for to go to bed
And calling on her mother, said:
„Give me a chair till I sit down
And a pen and ink till I write down”

I wish my baby it were born
And smiling on its daddy’s knee
And me poor girl to be dead and gone
With the long green grass growing over me

He went upstairs and the door he broke
He found her hanging by a rope
He took his knife and he cut her down
And in her pocket these words he found

„Go dig my grave large, wide and deep
Put a marble stone at my head and feet
And in the middle a turtle dove
So the world may know, I died for love”