BROOKLAND ROAD I WAS Very well pleased with what I knowed, Till I met with a maid on the Brookland Road, Low down-low down! Where the liddle green lanterns shineO maids, I've done with 'ee all but one, And she can never be mine! 'Twas right in the middest of a hot June night, With thunder duntin' round, And I see'd her face by the fairy light She only smiled and she never spoke, But when she'd gone my heart was broke, Oh! Stop your ringing and let me be— You'll ring Old Goodman' out of the sea, Old Goodman's farm is rank sea sand, Oh! Fairfield church is water-bound Oh! leave me walk on the Brookland Road, In the thunder and warm rain Oh! leave me look where my love goed And p'raps I'll see her again! Low down-low down! Where the liddle green lanterns shine— O maids, I've done with 'ee all but one, And she can never be mine! 1 Earl Godwin of the Goodwin Sands? |