Sweet England-Jo Freya

[ti:Sweet England] [ar:Jo Freya] [al:The Songs of England] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sweet England - Jo Freya [00:08.93]As I was a walking one morning in Spring [00:14.97]To hear the larks whistle [00:17.95]And the gully-birds sing [00:20.53] [00:21.31]I heard a sweet maiden a making a moan [00:28.26]But alas I'm a stranger a long way from home [00:35.75] [00:39.02]I came from Sweet England [00:42.23]With my mother and dad [00:44.89]And I thought in America all might be had [00:51.15]Of Gold and of silver and acres galore [00:58.24]And I'll never meet hunger and poverty more [01:05.82] [01:08.96]But alas for Sweet England my father is dead [01:14.32] [01:15.32]And my mother can learn [01:17.86]But there's little for bread [01:20.73]And I wipe as I gaze o'er the far distant Main [01:27.38] [01:27.92]For a fine ship to take me to England again [01:34.94] [01:35.45]Now my mother is dead [01:38.49]And I'm left all alone [01:41.68]But if I were in England [01:44.68]No more would I roam [01:47.22] [01:47.87]And the aunt's in the country [01:50.71]And she loves me amain [01:54.03] [01:55.16]Oh will not some ship take me over again [02:01.46] [02:05.77]There's a neat little cottage [02:08.82]With a rose at the door [02:11.80]And there with my aunt [02:14.52]I would live my life o'er [02:17.42] [02:18.03]And nurse her in sickness [02:20.90]And tend to her pain [02:24.98]And thank God I'm back in Sweet England again