[00:05.77]Once there was a shepherd lad
[00:07.95]Kept sheep upon the hill
[00:10.24]And he's laid his pipe and his crook aside
[00:13.50]And there he's slept his fill
[00:15.57]He woke up on a riverbank on a fine May morning
[00:20.66]And there he spied a lady
[00:23.36]Swimming in the clothes that she was born in
[00:28.10]So he raised his head from his green bed
[00:32.90]and he approached the maid
[00:35.24]"Put on your clothes, my dear,"
[00:37.63]He says, "and do not be afraid
[00:40.53]It's fitter for a lady fair to sew a silken seam
[00:45.46]Than to rise on a fair May morning
[00:48.37]and swim against the stream."
[00:54.78]"Well if you'll not touch my mantle
[00:57.14]and you'll leave my clothes alone,
[00:59.71]Then I'll give you all the money
[01:02.14]Sir that you can carry home."
[01:05.19]"I'll not touch your mantle
[01:07.46]and I'll leave your clothes alone
[01:10.07]But I'll take you out of the clear water
[01:13.26]My dear, to be my own"
[01:15.51]And he's taken her out of the clear water
[01:18.42]and he's rowed her in his arms
[01:20.63]"Put on your clothes, my dear,"
[01:23.14]He says, "and hide your bounteous charms."
[01:26.25]He's put her on a milk white steed
[01:29.50]himself upon another
[01:31.01]And it's all along the way they rode
[01:34.57]like sister and like brother.
[01:58.44]She rode up to her father's gate
[02:06.00]and she's rapped upon the pin,
[02:08.11]And ready stood a porter there
[02:10.90]to let the fair maid in.
[02:13.64]When the gates were opened
[02:15.83]It's so nimbly she stepped in
[02:18.66]She said, "Kind sir
[02:19.79]You are a fool without and I'm a maid within
[02:24.18]So fare thee well, my modest boy
[02:27.50]I thank you for your care
[02:29.37]But had you done as you desired
[02:32.16]I'd never have left you there.
[02:34.60]I will sew no silken seam on a fine May morning.
[02:39.48]You can bide your time till your time runs out
[02:42.65]So take this as fair warning.
[02:45.22]I will sew no silken seam on a fine May morning.
[02:50.25]You can bide your time till your time runs out
[02:53.70]So take this as fair warning.