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Crystal Spring

Waterson:Carthy19 Mar 2021

Crystal Spring Lyrics

Crystal Spring - Waterson:Carthy

Down by a crystal spring where the nightingale sing

Most pleasant it is in season to hear the groves ring

Down by a riverside a young captain I espied

Entreating of his true love for to be his bride

 

Dear phyllis says he can you fancy me

All in your soft bowers a crown it shall be

And you shall take no pain I will you maintain

My ship she's a loaded just come in from spain

 

Wherever you dine there you shall dream of mine

And so sweetly in the season when you will be mine

 

I do lay thee so well I'll maintain you so fair

 

As no lady in the navy with you can compare

 

If ever I prove false to my soft little girl

May the oceans turn desert and the elements move

For wherever I shall be I'll be constant to thee

My heart is all over if I rove through the sea

 

Down by a crystal spring where the nightingale sing

Most pleasant it is in season to hear the groves ring

 

Down by a riverside a young captain I espied

 

Entreating of his true love for to be his bride