Sheepcrook and Black Dog

Sheepcrook and Black Dog - Sandra Kerr/Nancy Kerr

I'll bid it adieu

Here's my bag and my budget

I'll listen to you

Here's my sheep-crook and me black dog

I'll leave them more behind

Fine laurel fine floral

You've proved all unkind

All to my dear Dinah these words did I say

Tomorrow we'll be married love tomorrow is the day

'Tis too soon dear Willy my age is too young

One day to our wedding is one day too soon

I'll go into service if the day ain't to 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

To see if my Dinah had changed here mind

But she wrote that she's led such a contrary life

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

Here's my sheep-crook and me black dog

I'll bid it adieu

Here's my bag and my budget

I'll listen to you

Here's my sheep-crook and me black dog

I'll leave them more behind

Fine laurel fine floral

You've proved all unkind