//Early One Morning
//Music by: UDIO
//Lyrics by: Anonymous (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Early_One_Morning_(Anonymous))
Early one morning,
just as the sun was rising,
I heard a maid sing in the valley below:
Oh don't deceive me,
Oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?
Remember the vows that,
you made to me truly;
Remember how tenderly you nestled close to me.
Gay is the garland,
fresh are the roses
I've culled from the garden to bind over thee.
Here I now wander,
alone as I wonder
Why did you leave me to sigh and complain?
I ask of the roses,
should I be forsaken?
Why must I here in sorrow remain?
Through yonder grove,
by the spring that is running,
There you and I have so merrily played,
Kissing and courting,
and gently sporting,
Oh, my innocent heart you've betrayed!
How could you slight so,
a sweet girl who loves you,
A pretty girl who loves you so dearly and warm?
Though love's folly,
is surely a fancy,
Still it should prove me sweeter than your scorn.
Soon you will meet with,
another pretty maiden,
Some pretty maiden, you'll court her for a while;
Thus ever ranging,
turning and changing,
Always searching for a girl that is new.
Thus sang the maiden,
her sorrows bewailing;
Thus sang the maid in the valley below:
Oh don't deceive me,
Oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?
Thus sang the maid in the valley below:
"Oh don't deceive me,
Oh never leave me,