Reedcutters Daughter by Lizzy Hardingham

 

Come all you young fellows who intend to start roving

Pray pay attention and listen to me

For I once loved a girl and I would have married

But I belonged to the road and I had to be free

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For I was a tinker, a-fixing and mending

Camped by a village and earning my pay

While she had a house and a father to care for

The reedcutters daughter from Hoveton way

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For the times they are hard when a girl loves another

When really she shouldn't and the law says it's so

Each night as the sun sets to me she should wander

And each night as it rose, to the house she would go

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I knew that some day we'd be sad for the parting

Each morn I would wihs and each night I would pray

So happy together with this blue eyed maiden

The reedcutters daughter form Hoveton way

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When I think on the short time that we spent together

Often a frown passes over my brow

She told me that some day I'd grow to forget her

But many's the time that I think of her now

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I was cruel to be kind when the time came for parting

With a kiss and a smile and I'll see you again

But just as I found her I left her a-standing

The reedcutters daughter from Hoveton way

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I thought it was cruel now I see it was kindness

For she could not leave and I could not stay

Oft times I wonder if I'm still remembered

By the reedcutters daughter from Hoveton way

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By the reedcutters daughter from Hoveton way