Steeleye Span - Edwin lyrics
[Steeleye Span - Edwin lyrics]
Come all ye wild young people
And listen to my song
I will unfold concerning gold that
Guides so many wrong
Young Emma was a servant maid
Who loved a sailor bold
Who ploughed the main much gold to gain
For his love so we've been told
He ploughed the main for seven
Years and then returned home
As soon as he set foot on
Shore unto his love did go
He went unto young Emma's house his
Gold all for the show
That he has gained upon the main
All in the lowlands low
Young Edwin he sat drinking till
Time to go to bed
He little thought a sword that night
Would part his body and head
And Edwin he got into bed
And scarcely was asleep
When Emily's cruel parents soft into
His room did creep
They stabbed him
Dragged him out of bed and to the sea did go
They sent his body floating down
To the lowlands low
"Oh father, where's the stranger came here
Last night to lay?"
"Oh he is dead no tales can
Tell" the father he did say
The fishes of the ocean swim
O'er my lover's breast
His body rolls in motion I
Hope his soul's at rest
The shells upon the sea shore
Rolling to and fro
Remind me of young Edwin that
Ploughed the lowlands low
So many a day she passed away
And tried to ease her mind
Crying "Oh my friends
My love is gone and I am left behind"
And Emma broken hearted was to
Bedlam forced to go
Her shrieks were for young Edwin
That ploughed the lowlands low
And listen to my song
I will unfold concerning gold that
Guides so many wrong
Young Emma was a servant maid
Who loved a sailor bold
Who ploughed the main much gold to gain
For his love so we've been told
He ploughed the main for seven
Years and then returned home
As soon as he set foot on
Shore unto his love did go
He went unto young Emma's house his
Gold all for the show
That he has gained upon the main
All in the lowlands low
Young Edwin he sat drinking till
Time to go to bed
He little thought a sword that night
Would part his body and head
And Edwin he got into bed
And scarcely was asleep
When Emily's cruel parents soft into
His room did creep
They stabbed him
Dragged him out of bed and to the sea did go
They sent his body floating down
To the lowlands low
"Oh father, where's the stranger came here
Last night to lay?"
"Oh he is dead no tales can
Tell" the father he did say
The fishes of the ocean swim
O'er my lover's breast
His body rolls in motion I
Hope his soul's at rest
The shells upon the sea shore
Rolling to and fro
Remind me of young Edwin that
Ploughed the lowlands low
So many a day she passed away
And tried to ease her mind
Crying "Oh my friends
My love is gone and I am left behind"
And Emma broken hearted was to
Bedlam forced to go
Her shrieks were for young Edwin
That ploughed the lowlands low