| Lyrics: | Meet Me by the Moonlight
I am going to leave you tomorrow,
To sail on the ocean so
blue;
To leave all my friends and relations,
I have come now to bid you
adieu.
Then meet me by the moonlight, love, meet me,
I want to see you
alone;
To tell of the heart that is breaking,
To leave my love and my home.
I
hate to leave you, my darling,
But my parents to me are unkind;
To prove the words false
that are spoken,
Has never once entered my mind.
I have a fine ship on the
ocean,
All lined with silver and gold.
And before my lover shall perish,
I'll have
the ship anchored and sold.
I have come by the moonlight to see you,
To tell of my
future time;
I am going to seek for a fortune,
Will return and claim you as
mine.
"Your return to me is uncertain,
But to you I will always prove true;
God
grant you may have a safe voyage,
And our days apart may be few!"
"I know that
Heaven will bless us,
And the angels will guide you aright;
To help you return to your
loved one,
Though her heart is breaking tonight."
Years passed, and she proved to
him faithful,
To another she never was wed.
And her life it seemed blighted
forever,
When she heard that her true love was dead.
From Ethel Park Richardson-
American Mountain Songs (1927)
Variant on Prisoners Song,New Jail etc.
@love @travel
@death
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