Sovay (Live, BBC Two, Six Fifty-Five Special, 5 August 1982)

Sovay (Live, BBC Two, Six Fifty-Five Special, 5 August 1982) - Pentangle

Composed by：Bert Jansch/Danny Thompson/Jacqui McShee/John Renbourn/Terry Cox

Sovay Sovay all on a day

She dressed herself in man's array

With a sour and pistols all at her side

To meet her true love

To meet her true love

Away she rides

As she was galloping on the plain

She met her true love and bid him stand

Stand and deliver young man she said

And if you do not

And if you do not

I'll shoot you dead

He delivered up his golden store

And still she craved for one thing more

That diamond ring that I see you wear

Oh hand it over

Hand it over

And your life I'll spare

From my diamond ring I would not part

For it's a token from my sweetheart

Shoot and be damned you rogue said he

And you'll be hanged then

And you'll be hanged then

For murdering me

Next morning in the garden green

Young Sovay and her true love were seen

He spied his watch hanging from her clothes

Which made him blush lads

Made him blush lads

Like any rose

Why do you blush you silly young thing

I thought to have that your diamond ring

'Twas I who robbed you all on that plain

So here's your gold love

Here's your gold

And your watch and chain

I only did it for to know

If you would be a man or no

If you had given ring she said

I'd have pulled the trigger

Pulled the trigger

And shot you dead