As I was a walking down
by the sea shore
Where the winds and the waves
and the billows did roar
There I heard a strange voice
make a terrible sound
'Twas the wind and the waves
and the echoes all round
Crying Oh my lover's gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never
Shall see him no more
She'd a voice like a nightingale skin
like a dove
And the song that
she sung it waqs all about love
I saked her to marry me
marry me please
But the answer she gave
My love's drowned in the sea
Crying Oh my lover's gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never
Shall see him no more
I told her I'd gold
and I'd silver beside
In a coach
and six horses with me
she could ride
No I never will marry nor yet
make a wife
I'll stay constant
and true all the time I've got life
Crying Oh my lover's gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never
Shall see him no more
She threw out her arms
and she took a great leap
From the cliffs
that were high to the billows so deep
Crying the rocks of the ocean
shall make me a bed
And the shrimps of the sea
shall swim over my head
Crying Oh my lover's gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never
Shall see him no more
And now every night
at six bells they appear
When the moon it is shining the sky
it is clear
These two constant lovers with
all their young charms
Rolling over and over
in each other's arms
Crying Oh my lover's gone
He's a youth I adore
He's gone and I never
Shall see him no more