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Title
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Down in the North Country
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Singer
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Faulkner, James
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
Down in the North Country there lived a young couple,
A man and a maid so gallant and gay,
They long time were courting, but nothing of marriage,
Till at length this young maid to her lover did say -
'Come tell me plain, what is it you mean?
For from courting I'm very resolved for to marry,
Or else from your company I will refrain.'
Verse 2
'I must needs confess I do love you dearly,
For you are the joy of my heart's delight,
But when a man's wed his joys are all fled,
Freed from all liberty, bound down to slavery,
I cannot wed you. I wish you goodnight.'
She languished and laid, there came a brisk blade,
He stepped up to her, thinking for to woo her,
And he was a carpenter's son by his trade.
Verse 3
She wrote her old true love a charming, sweet letter,
For him to come on the nineteenth of June,
For him to do, instead of a better,
To wait at the table all on the bridegroom;
When these lines he read, it made his heart bleed -
'For the thoughts of my Polly drive me melancholy,
But now I have foolishly lost her indeed.'
Verse 4
He saddled his gray mare, and made down to the station,
Thinking to meet with his own true love there,
Then she came down, in her proper motion,
And from his bright eyes shed many a tear -
'I had so soon thought you'd be so soon lost,
I had no longer tarried, but with you had married;
And now I have foolishly lost you indeed.'
