My own love said to me, My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you For your lack of kind She went away from me And this she did say It will not be long Till our wedding day She went away from me And she walked through the fair And slowly I watched her Move here and move there She went her way homeward With one star away As the swan in the evening Moves over the lake I dreamed last night That my own love came in She came in so sweetly Her feet made no dip She came close beside me And this she did say It will not be long Till our wedding day She came in so sweetly Her feet made no dip
