Pretty Maid

The Pretty Maid - Clannad

It was on a fine

Summers morning

The birds sweetly

Tune on each bough

And as I walked out

For my pleasure

I saw a maid milking a cow

Her voice was so enchanting

Melodious

Left me quite unable to go

My heart it was

Loaded with sorrow

For the pretty girl

Maid milking her cow

Then to her

I made my advances

"Good morrow most beautiful maid

Your beauty my heart

So entrances"

"Pray sir do not banter " she said

"I'm not such a rare precious jewel

That I should enamour you so

I am but a poor

Little milk girl"

Says the pretty girl

Maid milking her cow

The indies afford

No such jewel

So bright

So transparently clear

I do not add things

To my funeral

Consent but to know me

My dear

Oh had I the lamp

Of aladdin

Or the wealth that

Gold mines can bestow

Id rather be poor in a cottage

With the pretty girl

Milking her cow