Song Lyrics from The Roseland Barndance

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The Dark Eyed Sailor (Trad. Arr. North Cregg)

As I went a walking one evening fair, it being the summer to take the air
I spied a female with a sailor boy and I stood to listen
I stood to listen to hear what they might say.

He said "Young maiden now why do you roam all along by yonder Lee?"
She heaved a sigh and the tears they did roll, "For my dark eyed sailor,
For my dark eyed sailor, he ploughs the stormy seas."

He said "You can drive him from your mind for another young man you surely will find.
Love turns a sight and it soon grows cold like a winter's morning,