Now as I was a-walking down by the sea shore

Where the wind it did whistle and the waves they did roar

There I heard a fair maid make a terrible sound

Like the wind and the waves that did echo all around

Crying, "Oh, my love is gone

He's the youth I adore, and he's drowned

And I never will see him no more"

She'd a voice like a nightingale, skin like a dove

And the song that she sang, it was all about love

And when I asked her to marry me, "Oh marry me, please"

But the answer she gave me, "My love's drowned in the sea"

Crying, "Oh, my love is gone

He's the youth I adore, and he's drowned

And I never will see him no more"

So I said I had gold and silver beside

On a coach and six horses with me she could ride

But she said, "I will not marry you, nor prove you a wife

I'll be constant and true all the days I have life"

Crying, "Oh, my love is gone

He's the youth I adore, and he's drowned

And I never will see him no more"

Then she flung her arms wide and she took a great leap

From the cliffs that were high to the billows so deep

Saying, "The rocks of the ocean shall be my death bed

And the shrimps of the sea shall swim over my head"

Crying, "Oh, my love is gone

He's the youth I adore, and he's drowned

And I never will see him no more"

And now every night at six bells they appear

When the moon's shining bright and the stars they are clear

These two constant lovers with each others charms

Rolling over and over in each others arms

Crying, "Oh, my love is gone

He's the youth I adore, and he's drowned

And I never will see him no more

And I never will see him no more

And I never will see him no more"