Anonymous: Sweet Nightingale
(Music in Shakespeare's time, Track 32)
My sweetheart come along
Don't you hear the sweet song
The sweet notes of the nightingale flow?
Can you hear the fond tale
Of the Sweet Nightingale
As she sings in the valleys below?
Pretty Mary don't fail,
Shall I carry your pail
Shall I carry your pail to the cow?
You shall hear the fond tale
Of the Sweet Nightingale,
As she sings in the valleys below.
"Pray, let me alone,
For I've hands of my own,
I have hands of my own but have woe.
I would hear the fond tale
Of the Sweet Nightingale,
As she sings in the valleys below."
Now this couple agreed
And were married with speed,
And soon to the church they did go.
No more she's afraid
To walk in the shade,
Or to walk in those meadows below.
Don't you hear the sweet song
The sweet notes of the nightingale flow?
Can you hear the fond tale
Of the Sweet Nightingale
As she sings in the valleys below?
Pretty Mary don't fail,
Shall I carry your pail
Shall I carry your pail to the cow?
You shall hear the fond tale
Of the Sweet Nightingale,
As she sings in the valleys below.
"Pray, let me alone,
For I've hands of my own,
I have hands of my own but have woe.
I would hear the fond tale
Of the Sweet Nightingale,
As she sings in the valleys below."
Now this couple agreed
And were married with speed,
And soon to the church they did go.
No more she's afraid
To walk in the shade,
Or to walk in those meadows below.
