Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe-The Dubliners

[ti:Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:Drinking And Courting] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe - The Dubliners [00:06.70]Come all you lads and lassies [00:08.80]And listen to me a while [00:11.00]I'll sing to you a verse or two [00:13.20]That will surely make you smile [00:15.35]Concerning a young man [00:16.75]I'm going to tell you now [00:19.26] [00:19.79]Who has lately come a-courting [00:21.49]The maid of the sweet brow nknowe [00:24.02]This young man says: [00:25.44]My pretty maid will ye come along with me [00:28.24]We'll both fly off together [00:29.52] [00:30.19]And happy we will be [00:32.46]We'll join our hands in wedlock bands [00:34.47]As I am speaking with you now [00:36.65]And I'll do my best endeavour for [00:38.87]The maid of the sweet brown knowe [00:40.81] [00:44.90]This fair and fickle young thing [00:47.16]She knew not what to say [00:49.34]Her eyes did shine like [00:50.48]Diamonds bright [00:51.20]And merrily did play [00:53.48]She says: 'Young man your love subdued [00:55.10]For I'm not ready now [00:57.57]And I'll spend another season [00:59.24]At the foot of the sweet brown knowe' [01:01.80]The young man said: 'My pretty maid [01:03.55]How can you answer so [01:05.91]See down in yonder valley [01:07.30]Where my crops do gently grow [01:10.04]Down in yonder valley [01:11.17]I have horses men and plough [01:12.94] [01:14.31]And they're at their daily labour [01:15.95]For the maid of the sweet brown knowe' [01:18.94] [01:22.60]'If they're at their daily labour [01:24.06]Kind Sir it's not for me [01:26.56]I've heard of your behaviour [01:27.79]I have indeed' said she [01:30.76]'There is an inn where you call in [01:32.93]I've heard the people say [01:34.49]And you rap and you call [01:35.95]And you pay for all [01:37.04]And go home at the break of day [01:38.75]If I rap and call and I pay for all [01:40.66]The money is all my own [01:41.93] [01:42.89]I will never spend your fortune [01:44.50]For I hear that you've got none [01:46.64]You've thought you had [01:48.44]My poor heart broken [01:49.40]By meeting with ye now [01:50.83]But I leave you where I found you [01:52.73]At the foot of the sweet brown knowe