Young girl's lament lyrics

When I was a young girl used to seek pleasure

When I was a young girl used to drink ale.

Out of the ale house and down to a jail house.

Right out of a bar room, down to my grave.

Had he but told me, before he shamed me

Had he but told me about it in time.

I could’ve had potions and salts of white mercury.

But now I’m a young girl, cut down in my prime.

Get six young gamblers to carry my coffin

Get me six young riders to sing me a song.

Put bunches of roses all over my coffin.

Roses to muffle the cluds as they fall.

When I was a young girl I used to seek pleasure.

When I was a young girl used to drink ale.

Out of the ale house and down down to a jail house

My body is ruined they’ve left me to die.