Sweet England-Jo Freya

[ti:Sweet England] [ar:Jo Freya] [al:Traditional Songs of England] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sweet England - Jo Freya [00:08.81]As I was a walking one morning in spring [00:14.72]To hear the larks whistle [00:17.84]And the gully birds sing [00:21.07]I heard a sweet maiden a making a moan [00:28.25]But alas I'm a stranger a long way from home [00:35.63] [00:39.04]I came from sweet England [00:42.04]With my mother and dad [00:44.71]And I thought in America all might be had [00:50.97]Of gold and of silver and acres galore [00:57.97]And I'll never meet hunger and poverty more [01:05.77] [01:08.90]But alas for sweet England my father is dead [01:14.75]And my mother can learn [01:17.77]But there's little for bread [01:20.54]And I weep as I gaze o'er the far distant main [01:27.97]For a fine ship to take me to England again [01:35.47]Now my mother is dead [01:38.42]And I'm left all alone [01:41.68]But if I were in England [01:44.64]No more would I roam [01:47.49]And the aunt's in the country [01:50.50]And she loves me amain [01:54.54] [01:55.17]Oh will not some ship take me over again [02:02.01] [02:05.81]There's a little neat coffeine [02:08.56]With a rose at the door [02:11.66]And there with my aunt [02:14.23]I would live my life o'er [02:18.15]And nurse her in sickness [02:20.83]And tend to her pain [02:24.98]And thank God I'm back in sweet England again