Shepherd Park- Elizabeth Smithers [Smitherd] (Glou) 1908 Sharp MS
[Three stanzas with music from Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/9/1498). Informant's last name usually spelled Smitherd in MS, also appears as Smithers.
R. Matteson 2017]
Shepherd Park - sung by Elizabeth Smithers [Smitherd] of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire on April 11, 1908
Down in Shepherd Park did dwell
A handsome young man, I loved him well;
He courted me my fair heart to gain,
Until he left me full of pain.
I went upstairs unto my bed,
And there I lay and nothing said;
My mistress came and to me said;
What is it that aileth thee my maid?
O mistress, you do little know,
What pain and sorrow I undergo;
put your right hand on my left breast,
My panting heart can take no rest.