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Title
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Green bushes
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Singer
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Iles, Elijah
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
As I was a-walking one morning in spring,
To hear the birds whistle and the nightingale sing;
I heard a young damsel, most sweetly sang she -
"Down by the green bushes he thinks to meet me."
Verse 2
"I'll buy you a beaver and a fine silken gown,
I'll buy you a petticoat flounced down to the ground,
If you will prove loyal and constant to me,
And forsake your own true love and be married to me."
Verse 3
"I want none of your beavers nor fine silken gowns,
I want none of your petticoats flounced down to the ground,
But if you will prove loyal and constant to me,
I'll forsake my own true love and be married to thee."
Verse 4
"Come, let us be going, kind sir, if you please,
Come, let us be going from under the those trees,
For yonder is coming my true love I see,
Down by the green bushes where he thinks to meet me."
Verse 5
And when that he came there and found she was gone,
He looked like a lambkin that was quite forlorn,
"She's gone with some other and forsaken me,
So adieu to the green bushes for ever," said he.
Verse 6
"I'll be much like a schoolboy and spend my time in play,
I will never so foolishly be deluded away.
A false hearted woman shall deceive me no more,
So adieu to the green bushes, 'tis time to give o'er."
