Sheepcrook and Black Dog - Offa Rex

Here’s my sheepcrook and my black dog

I give it to you

Here’s my bag and budget

I bid it adieu

Here’s my sheepcrook and my black dog

I leave them behind

Fine Flora, my love

Has proved all unkind

All to my dear Flora these words I did say

Tomorrow we’ll be married love, tomorrow is the day

I know my dear William my age is too young

One day to our wedding is one day too soon

For I’ll go into service if the day ain’t too late

To wait on a fine lady it is my intent

And when into service a year or two bound

It’s then we’ll get married and both settle down

A little time after, a letter was wrote

For to see if my dear Flora had changed her mind

But she wrote that she’d lived such a contrary life

She said that she’d never be a young shepherd’s wife

Here’s my sheepcrook and my black dog

I give it to you

Here’s my bag and budget

I bid it adieu

Here’s my sheepcrook and my black dog

I leave them behind

Fine Flora, my love

Has proved all unkind