The New-Mown Hay
Sung by William Rew.
Recorded by Peter Kennedy and Wyn Humphries in Sidbury, Devon, England, in 1954.
As I walked out one May morning,One May morning so gay, sir,
And there I spied a sweet pretty maid,
Sitting on the new-mown hay, sir.
Aye-fal-the-dal-aye-day
Suppose I prove another pretty maid,
All on the new mown hay, sir,
But the answer that she gave to me,
You'll spoil my maiden gown, sir.
I have a cock in my father's yard,
That never trod on hens, sir.
Well he claps Ms wings and he never treads,
Don't you think you're just like him, sir?
Will you step up to my father's yard,
Where it is walled all round, sir?
And you shall have your will of me,
And thirty thousand pound, sir.
Whenever you meet with another pretty maid,
In a market, fair or town, sir,
Never mind her flannel petticoats,
Nor the spoiling of her gown, sir.