The Young Night - Nina Simone

Down dearie down

There was a knight and he was young and riding along the wayside

And there he met a lady fair among the stacks of hay, sir

Down dearie down

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Well here shall you and I lady among the grass lay down

And I will take a special care of the rumpling of your gown

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So she told him

If you would go along with me into my father’s home sir

You shall enjoy my maiden’s head and my estate and all sir

Down dearie down

So he mounted her on a milk white steed himself upon another

And then they rid upon the road like sister and like brother

down dearie down

down dearie down

and when they came to father’s home all molded all about sir

she stepped but straight within the gates and shut the young man out sir

Down dearie down

Here is a purse of gold she said take it for your pain sir

And I will send my father’s men to go home with you again sir

And if you meeet a lady fair as you go by the town sir

You must not fear the dewy grass or the rumpling of her gown sir

Down dearie down

Dearie down

And if you meet a lady gay as you go by the hill sir

Here is the moral of the story

If you will not win you may you shall not win you will sir