Nick Garrie

Cambridge Town [Demo 1968]

Album: The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas [2010]
Author: Nick Garrie

I met my love in Cambridge town

The waters they still run beside the mill

I called his name in the morning frost

The waters they still run beside the mill

“Oh where have you been, these ten days three

Why is it, you stay away from me?”

“I stay from you

(He answered me)

For my heart is no longer free”

 

O hush sweet love you ... frighten me

Tomorrow I must married be

Your words are daggers, that cannot be

Tomorrow I shall married be

 

You asked my hand, my life I gave

The love we shared binds you to me

Alas fair maid, that love is dead and tomorrow I am to be wed

 

I walked alone in Cambridge town

The waters they still run beside the mill

I spied my love inside his home

The waters they still run beside the mill

I called his name in the morning frost

My true love he hid his face from me

“I shed bitter tears for the girl I had lost”

But the waters they still run beside the mill