歌手:Heidi Talbot
专辑:《The Last Star》

Once there was a shepherd lad
Kept sheep upon the hill
And he's laid his pipe and his crook aside
And there he's slept his fill
He woke up on a riverbank on a fine May morning
And there he spied a lady
Swimming in the clothes that she was born in
So he raised his head from his green bed
and he approached the maid
"Put on your clothes, my dear,"
He says, "and do not be afraid
It's fitter for a lady fair to sew a silken seam
Than to rise on a fair May morning
and swim against the stream."
"Well if you'll not touch my mantle
and you'll leave my clothes alone,
Then I'll give you all the money
Sir that you can carry home."
"I'll not touch your mantle
and I'll leave your clothes alone
But I'll take you out of the clear water
My dear, to be my own"
And he's taken her out of the clear water
and he's rowed her in his arms
"Put on your clothes, my dear,"
He says, "and hide your bounteous charms."
He's put her on a milk white steed
himself upon another
And it's all along the way they rode
like sister and like brother.
She rode up to her father's gate
and she's rapped upon the pin,
And ready stood a porter there
to let the fair maid in.
When the gates were opened
It's so nimbly she stepped in
She said, "Kind sir
You are a fool without and I'm a maid within
So fare thee well, my modest boy
I thank you for your care
But had you done as you desired
I'd never have left you there.
I will sew no silken seam on a fine May morning.
You can bide your time till your time runs out
So take this as fair warning.
I will sew no silken seam on a fine May morning.
You can bide your time till your time runs out
So take this as fair warning.