Edmund in the Lowlands
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Come all you wild young people and listen to my song
Concerning gold which I am told do lead so many wrong
Young Emily was a servant girl, she loved a sailor bold
Who ploughed the main, much gold to
Gain, for his true love we are told
Now seven long years being past and gone, to his homeland he did go
He landed to young Emily and all his gold he did show
That he had gained all on the main down in the lowlands low
Now her father he kept a public house, it stood down by the sea
"Young Edmund you may enter there and there the night you may stay
I will meet you in the morning but don't let my father know
That your name it is young Edmund who ploughed the lowlands low"
Young Edmund he did enter there but all his gold he did show
Says young Emily's cruel father "All this gold will prove your fall
For I will send your body sinking down in the lowlands low"
And young Edmund he went up to bed but scarce had fell asleep
When young Emily's cruel father all into the room he did creep
He stabbed him, dragged him from the bed and to the beach he did go
And he sent his body sinking down in the lowlands low
As young Emily on her pillow lay, she dreamed a dreadful dream
For she dreamed she saw young Edmund lying in a crimson stream
So it's early in the morning to her father's house she did go
Inquiring for young Edmund who ploughed the lowlands low
She says "Father where is the stranger who came last night to lie?"
"Ah he is dead, no tale to tell", her father did reply
"Oh father, cruel father, you will die a public show
For the murder of my Edmund who ploughed the lowlands low"
Now all the fishes of the ocean they swim o'er my true lover's grave
His body rocks in motion praying God his soul to save
How cruel was my father to murder Edmund so
And to steal the gold from one so bold who ploughed the lowlands low
Now young Emily's cruel father could not die all night for rest
For the dreadful deed that he had done, he therefore did confess
He was tried and he was sentenced and he died a public show
For the murder of young Edmund so dear who ploughed the lowlands low