Grey Cock Lyrics - Singles - Seeger Peggy

GREY COCK 

Johnny he promised to marry me 

I fear he's with some fair one and gone 

There's something that ails him and I don't know what it is 

But I'm weary of lying alone 

Johnny he came at the appointed hour 

Knocked on her window so slow 

This young girl arose and hurried on her clothes 

And she bid her true love welcome home 

She took him by the hand and she laid him down 

Found he was as cold as the clay 

She said, my dearest dear, if only I had my wish 

This long night would never turn to day 

Where is your soft bed of down, my dear? 

Where are your white holland sheets? 

And where is the fair girl who watches over you 

As you lie every night in your sleep? 

The sea is my soft bed of down, he said 

Sand be my white holland sheet 

The little hungry fishes they do feed off me 

As I lie every night in the deep 

Then oh my little cock, my handsome little cock, 

Don't crow till tis long after day 

Your cage will be of the purest beaten gold 

And your door of the sweet ivory 

But him a being young, he crowed so very soon 

Crowed three long hours before day 

This young man arose and he hurried on his clothes 

Farewell love, for I must go away 

When will you come back again, my love 

When will you come back again? 

When little fishes fly and the seas they do run dry 

And the hard rocks do melt in the sun 

Child #248 

recorded by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl on Blood and Roses 

see also NITEVIST WILIGHOS AREUSLEP 

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