Song Lyrics Unknown - Clerk Saunders    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Clerk Saunders Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Clerk Saunders Theme ID: 3663 Album: N/A CLERK SAUNDERS Clerk Saunders and May Margaret Were walking on yon garden green And sad and heavy was the love I wot That fell their twa between "A bed, a bed," Clerk Saunders said "A bed for you and me" "Fie no, fie no," quoth May Margaret "Till ainse we mairrit be" "Ye'll tak' a napkin in your hands And bind up baith your bonnie een Then you may swear and save your oath You saw me not since late yestereen "Tak' yer ma sword intae baith your hands And slowly, slowly lift the pin Then you may swear and save your oath Ye ne'er let Clerk Saunders in" It fell aboot the midnight hour When they asleep in bed were laid That in there came her seven brothers Wi' torches burning red And up and spak' the fifth o' them "It were a shame true love tae twine" And up and spak' the sixth o' them "It were a sin tae slay a sleeping man" But up and gat the seventh o' them And ne'er a word spak' he But he has striped his bright brown brand Down through Clerk Saunders's fair body And they lay still and sleepit sound Until the sun began tae sheen She looked atween her and the wa' And dull and drowsy were his een Then in there cam' her faither dear And said "Let a' your mournin' be I'll carry the dead corpse tae the clay And I'll come back and comfort thee" The clinkin' bell gaed through the toon Tae carry the dead corpse tae the clay And Clerk Saunders stood at May Margaret's window I wot an hour before the day "Is there any room at your head, Saunders? Or any room at your feet? Or any room at your side Saunders? Whaur fain, fain I would sleep?" "No, there's nae room at my head, Margaret And nae room at my feet My bed it is full lowly now Among the hungry worms I sleep And fair Margaret and rare Margaret And Margaret of veritie Gin ere ye love anither man Ne'er love him as ye did me" Then up and crew the milk-white cock And up and crew the grey Her lover vanished in the air And she went weepin' away Child #69 @ballad @courtship @murder @family @ghost recorded by Jean Redpath on Lowlands filename[ CLERKSAN SF ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Cod Liver Ile, Cold Haily Rainy Night, Cold Winter Shadow, Colin And Phoebe, Collier Laddie, Colombia Native Anthem Text, Colorado Trail, Come All Ye Southern Soldiers, Come All You Coal Miners, Come All You Garners Gay, Come And Dine, Come And Join The Air Force, Come Be A Soldier For Marlboro And Me, Come By The Hills, Come Fare Away, Come Feed The Black Sow, Come Kiss Me Love, Come O My Love, Come to Sin, Come To The Bower, Comical Ditty, Comin Round The Mountain, Coming Down With Old Vd, Coming Of The Roads, Coming Round The Mountain, Commonwealth Of Toil, Commuters Coronach, Computer Love Song, Con Las Abejas, Confederate Yankee Doodle, Congleton Bear, Congo River, Constant Sorrow, Constitution And The Guerriere, Cooper O Dundee, Copilots Lament, Copper Kettle, Corn Rigs Or Rigs O Barley, Cornish May Carol, Cornish Wassail, Cornwallis Country Dance, Corrie Doon, Cosher Baileys Engine, Cosmic And Freaky, Cosmic Love Song, Costa Rica Native Anthem Text, Coulters Candy, Counting The Goats Cyfrir Giefr, Country Boy, Country Lass, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy