Kate Rusby - Merry Green Broom Lyrics
A wager with you my pretty fair maidFive hundred pounds to your tenA maid you will go to the merry green broomAnd a maid you’ll no longer return-oA wager, a wager with you kind sirFive hundred pounds to my tenA maid I will go to the merry green broomAnd a maid I will boldly return-oThe maiden she sat in her bower aloneShe is in torment and strifeIf I don’t go to the Broomfield this nightMy love he won’t make me his wife-oSo up and she goes on her good white steedAway for her young man to meetShe found him lain there and all fast asleepWith a blood red rose at his feet-oShe’s kissed him twice on cheek and on chinThen over his body did leanThere she did place five rings on his chestJust so he would know she had been-oThen off through the woods the young maid did goJust when her love did ariseHe saw the five rings laid there on his chestOn his face was nought but surprise-oA wager with you my pretty fair maidFive hundred pounds to your tenA maid you will go to the merry green broomAnd a maid you’ll no longer return-oA wager, a wager with you kind sirFive hundred pounds to my tenA maid I will go to the merry green broomAnd a maid I will boldly return-o
