Classic Poem

1.

Sweet Mary was a servant girl;
She loved a sailor boy
Who ploughed the main much gold to gain
Down in the Lowlands Low.

2.

" My father keeps a public house
Down by the seaside shore,
And you can enter there today
And there all night may stay.

3.

" I'll meet you in the morning here;
Don't let my parents know
Your name, young Edward dear,
Who ploughs the Lowlands Low. "

4.

Young Edward he set down to drinking there
Till time to go to bed,
But little was he thinking then
What soon would crown his head.

5.

Young Edward rose and went to bed;
Had scarcely gone to sleep,
When Mary's cruel father bold
Into his room did creep.

6.

He killed him there and dragged him
Down the seaside shore;
He sent his body bleeding
Down to the Lowland Low.

7.

Sweet Mary she lay sleeping,
She dreamed a frightful dream
She dreamed she saw her lover's blood
Flowing in a stream.

8.

She rose, put on her clothes,
Just at the break of day;
" Father, where is that young man
Who came last night to stay? "

9.

" He's dead, he's dead, no tales to tell;
His gold will make a show. "
" You've killed the one that loved me,
The one that loved me so.

10.

" My true-love is in the ocean,
The waves roll o'er his breast,
His body is in motion,
I hope his soul's at rest. "