Текст (слова) песни: Jane Siberry - As I Roved Out
As I roved out one bright May morning To view the purple heather and flowers gay Who should I spy but my own true lover As she sat under yon willow tree I took off my hat and I did salute her I did salute her most courageously When she turned around And the tears fell from her eyes Saying `False young man, you have deluded me
Three diamond rings for love I gave you Three diamond rings to wear on your right hand But the vows you made, love You went and broke them And married the lassie that had the land.`
`If I married the lassie that had the land, my love `Tis that I`ll rue until the day I die But when fortune calls few men can shun it I was a blind fool was I`
Now at night when I go to my bed of slumber The thoughts of my true love run in my mind When I turned around to embrace my darling Instead of gold `tis brass I find
And I wish the Queen would call home her armies From the West Indies, Americkay, and Spain And every man to his homeland would run And I in hope that we`d meet again Then I roved out one bright May morning...
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