Traditional: By The Short Cut To The Rosses

By The Short Cut To The Rosses - Kenneth McKellar/accompaniment directed by Bob Sharples

By the shortcut through the Rosses

A fairy girl I met

I was taken by her beauty

As a fish is in the net

The fern uncovered to look at her

So very fair was she

With her hair as bright as seaweed

That flows in from the sea

By the shortcut through the Rosses

It was on the first of May

I heard the fairies piping

And they piped my heart away

They piped till I was mad with joy

But when I was alone

I found my heart was piped away

And in my breast a stone

By the shortcut through the Rosses

This I'll go nevermore

Lest she should also steal my soul

Who stole my heart before

Lest she take my soul and crush it

Like a daisy in her hand

For the shortcut through the Rosses is

The way to fairy land

Way to fairy land