Brave Young Sailor- Alice Davies (Glou) 1954 Collinson
[Six stanzas with music. From: Francis Collinson Manuscript Collection (COL/4/51A). Also appears in a PDF with music: http://folkopedia.efdss.org/images/a/a2/COL-4-51A.pdf dated 1955.
Stanza 5 is from "Constant Lady" broadside.
R. Matteson 2017]
A Brave Young Sailor- sung by Alice Davies, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire 11 August, 1954. Collector: Collinson, F
1. A brave young sailor he courted me,
He stole away my liberty,
He stole my heart with a free and good will,
Although he's false I love him still.
2. It's once I tied my apron low
My love followed me through Frost and snow,
But now my apron is up to my chin,
My love passes by and never looks in.
3. There is a seat on yonder hill,
Where my false lover is sitting still,
He takes a strange girl on his knee,
He kisses her and frowns on me.
4. The reason I will tell you for why,
Because she's got more gold than I
Her gold will wither and her beauty will blast,
Poor girl she'll come like me at last.
5. It's down the green field I do go,
Gathering flowers as they grow,
I gather one of every kind,
Until I gather my apron full.
6. I wish to God my baby was born,
Sat smiling on his dada's arms,
And me poor girl rolled in cold clay
And green grass growing all over my grave.