My Lagan Love
Margaret Barry
4:28My own love said to me "My mother won't mind And my father won't slight ye For your lack of coin" As she stepped away from me And this she did say "It will not be long, love Till our wedding day" As she stepped away from me And she moved through the fair And for a little e'en I watched her in my fair mo dear And then she turned homeward With one sad eye Like the swan in the evening Moves over the lake Oh, the people are saying That no two were wedded But what of the sorrowing That never was said? And she smiled as she passed With her goods and her gear And that was the last That I saw of my dear Last night she came to me My dead love came in So softly, she came in That her feet made no din As she laid her hand on me And this she did say "It will not be long, love Till our wedding day"