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Title
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My love is gone
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Singer
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Potter, Henry
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
As I walked out down by the sea shore,
Where the winds blow cold and the billows did roar,
I heard a fair maid make a sorrowful sound,
With the wind and the wave and the water all round.
Chorus
[Crying], 'O my love is gone, he's the lad I adore,
I never, no, never, shall see my love more.'
Verse 2
She'd a voice like a nightingale, and skin like a dove,
And the song that she sang was concerning her love;
I asked her to marry me, if that she would please,
But the answer she gave me - 'My love's in the seas.'
Chorus
Verse 3
I told her I'd silver, and much gold beside,
And a coach and six horses and with me she could ride -
'No I never will marry, nor be no man's wife,
But be true to my own love as long as I have life.'
Chorus
Verse 4
Then she opened her arms and took a long leap,
From the rock that was high, to the sea that was deep,
Saying - 'The shells of the oysters shall make me a bed,
And all the small fish shall swim over my head.'
Chorus
Verse 5
Now every night since, just at eight bells is seen -
When the moon that is white shines on the water that is green -
These two constant lovers, with all their young charms,
Rolling over and over, locked in each others arms.
Chorus
