Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime - Shirley & Dolly Collins

As I was a-walking one midsummer’s morning

As I was a-walking along the highway

When who should I see but my own dearest daughter

With her head wrapped in flannel on a hot summer’s day

«Oh mother, dear mother, come sit you down by me

Come sit you down by me and pity my case

For my poor head is aching, my poor heart is breaking

And I’m in low spirits and surely must die

«Oh mother, dear mother, come send for the clergyman

And send for the doctor to heal up my wound

And likewise my young man whose heart it did wander

So that he may see me bfore I’m put down

«And when I am dead to th churchyard they’ll bear me

There’s six jolly fellows to carry me on

And in each of their hands a bunch of green laurel

So they may not smell me as they march along»

So rattle your drum and play your fife over me

And sing the dead march as we walk all along

Then return to your homes and think of that young girl

«Oh, there goes a young girl cut down in her prime»