As I Was Walking- Mrs. Poole (Dors) 1906 Hammond
[From Henry Hammond Manuscript Collection (HAM/4/22/7)
R. Matteson 2017]
As I Was Walking- Sung by Mrs. Tom Poole of Beaminister, Dorset in June, 1906. Collected H.E. Hammond
As I was walking in the dew,
Gathering flowers red, white and blue;
Gathering flowers red, white and blue,
I little knew what love could do.
Where love is planted, there it grows,
And blossoms smell most like any rose,
And all the world will plainly see,
That I loved one that never loved me.
I put my back up against some tree,
Thinking it was a trusty tree,
But first it bent and then did break,
And so did my false love to me.
Oh! dig me a grave, large wide and deep;
And a marble-stone to cover me,
And in the middle of it two turtle dove,
To show young men I died for love.