Cold and Raw

歌詞

Cold and raw the North did blow, Bleak in the morning early; All the trees were hid in snow Dagl'd by winter yearly. Gentlemen riding o'er the heather Met with a farmer's daughter; Her rosy cheeks and her bonny brow They made his mouth to water. Quickly he saluted me, Meaning to shew his breeding; I bowed to him right gracefully, His courtesy exceeding. He ask'd me where I went so soon And longed to begin a parley. I told him to the next market town A-purpose to sell my barley. “In this purse, sweet girl,” says he, “Twenty pounds lie fairly Seek no further one to buy For I'll take all your barley. Twenty more would buy delight Your body I love so dearly, If you would lay with me all night And go home in the morning early.” “If twenty pounds could buy the globe It's this I never do, sir. Or were my kin as poor as Job I wo'd not raise 'em so, sir. If I lay with you this night We'd get a young child together And you'd be gone ere the nine months end And where should I find a father?” He told me he had married been Fourteen years and longer, Or else he'd take me for his own And tie the knot much stronger. I bade him then no further roam But manage his wedlock fairly; And keep his gold for his wife at home And some other shall have my barley.