Category: British Literature

Songs of the West Folk Songs of Devon & Cornwall Collected from the Mouths of the People

Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924; Bussell, F. W. (Frederick William), 1862-1944; Sheppard, H. Fleetwood (Henry Fleetwood), 1824-1901; Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 43,893 words

There came an Earl a riding by, A gipsy maid espyed he; "O nut-brown maid, from green-wood glade, O prithee come along with me." "In green-wood glade, fair Sir!" she said, "I am so blythe, as bird so gay. In thy castle tall, in bower and hall, I fear for grief I'd pine away."

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2. PART II.

Three Gipsies stood at the Castle gate, They sang so high, they sang so low, The lady sate in her chamber late, Her heart it melted away as snow, Away as snow, Her heart it melt...

1. PART I.

There came an Earl a riding by, A gipsy maid espyed he; "O nut-brown maid, from green-wood glade, O prithee come along with me." "In green-wood glade, fair Sir!" she said, "I am...