Intro: verse 1: One morning fair as I chanced the air Down by Black Water Side 'Twas in gazing all around me That an Irish girl I spied verse 2: All in the fore part of the night They rolled in sport and play Then this young man arose and he put on his clothes Saying, "Fare thee well today" verse 3: "That's not the promise you made to me When you lay upon my breast You could make me believe with your lying tongue That the sun rose in the west" verse 4: "Go home, go home to your father's garden Go home and cry your fill And think of the sad misfortune I brought on with my wanton will" VERSE 5: "There's not a flower in this whole world As easily led as I And when fishes can fly and seas do run dry It is then that you'll marry__ I"
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