Willie and Mary

Willie and Mary



First Verse:

As Willie and Mary met by the seaside, a long farewell for to take. Said Mary to Willie, "If you go away, I'm afraid my poor heart, it might break."

"Oh don't be afraid, dearest Mary," he said as he clasped his fond maid to his side. " In my absence don't mourn, for when I return I will make you sweet Mary my bride."



Second Verse:

Seven long years had passed and no word at last. Mary stood by her own cottage door. A beggar came by with a patch on her eye. Bedraggled, ragged, and tore. "Your charity fair made, bestow upon me! Your fortune I'll tell you beside. Your lad that you mourn shall never return to make little Mary his bride."



Third Verse:

She slipped and she started saying, "All that I have, freely to you I will give, if you tell me true, what I now ask of you. Is my Willie dead or alive."

"He's living," said he. "Though in sad poverty; and shipwrecked he has been beside. When he'd money untold and pockets of gold, he'd have made little Mary his bride."



Fourth Verse:

"Then if he is dead, no other I'll wed. No other I'll have by my side. For riches though rolled and covered in gold, he'd have made his own Mary his bride.

Then the patch off his eye the beggar let fly. His old coat and crutches beside. And in sailor's blue clothes and pockets of gold, it was Willie that stood by her side.



Fifth Verse:

"Oh don't be afraid, dearest Mary," he said. "It was only your faith that I tried. To the church we'll away by the break of the day and I'll make little Mary my bride."