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Lyrics for In Seaport Town by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | In Seaport Town | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 192 | | | | Lyrics: | In Seaport Town
In Seaport town there lived a merchant
He had two sons and a
daughter dear
And among them all was the prettiest boy (there was a servant)
He was the
daughter's dearest dear.
One evening late they were in the room courting.
Her oldest
brother perchance did hear;
He went and told his other brothers:
Let's deprive her of her
dearest dear.
They rose up early the next morning,
A game of hunting for to
go;
And upon this young man they both insisted
For him to go along with
them.
They wandered over the hills and mountains
And through a many of a place
unknown,
'Till at last they came to a lonesome valley
And there they killed him dead
alone.
When they return back the next evening,
Their sister ask for the servant
man
Saying: We lost him on a game of hunting;
No more of him it's could we
find.
While she lie on her bedside slumbering,
The servant man did appear to
her,
Saying: Your brothers killed me rough and cruel
All wallowed in a score of
blood
She rose up early the next morning;
She dressed herself in a rich
array,
Saying: I'll go and find my best beloved
All wallowed in a score of
blood.
She wandered over the hills and mountains
And through a many of a place
unknown,
Till at last she came to the lonesome valley,
And there she found him dead
alone.
Saying: Your eyes look like some bloody butcher,
Your eyes look like some
salt or brine.
She kissed his cold, cold lips and, crying,
Said: You are the darling bosom
friend of mine.
Since my brothers been so cruel
As to force your sweet love
away,
One grave shall preserve us both together,
As long as I have breath I will stay with
you.
When she return back the next evening,
Her brothers ask her where she'd
been.
O hold your tongue, you deceitful villains,
For one alone you both shall
hang.
Her brothers then they came convicted
To jump in a boat and a-finally
leave.
The wind did blow and the waves came o'er them
They made their graves in the deep
blue sea
@family @murder
From English Folk Songs in the Appalachian Mountains,
Sharp
Collected from Stella Shelton, Alleghany, NC 1916
see also JEALBROS,
JEALBRO2
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