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Farewell Dear Rosanna 
Farewell Dear Rosanna 
Farewell, dear Rosannie, and I shall no more Behold your fair face as I have done before, I'll stand at your window both early and late, So hard is my fortune and troubles so great. 
When cruel old parents came this for to hear They stepped up to the window and bid him away Then away went Alamander, away in great speed Rosannie is married to a squire indeed. 
If Rosannie is married, the girl I adore I'll turn to the seas and I'll come here no more, So early next morning the ship it set sail So early next morning she drew a fresh gale. 
Through cold, stormy weather her course she did steer, For the sake of Rosannie, Alamander's own dear And when they were a-sailing their ship struck a rock And all of the sailors in the sea they were lost. 
With the exception of one sailor in a hogsted (hogshead?) was tossed He sailed on the ocean till at length he did cross Away to old England then high to declare Alamander is drowned, Rosannie's own dear. 
And when Rosannie came this for to hear She wrung her lily-white hands and tore down her hair; Saying,"Curse cruel parents wherever they be They'll slight their children in many degree. 
She pulled out her silver dagger and oierced her body through Her blood it lay sprinkled like evening dew, She pulled out her apron in the place where she stood And sprinkled it over with innocent blood. 
Alamander's body buried in the salt, roaring main Rosannie's blood sprinkled like drops of hard rain, Saying, " Cursed be cruel parents for their cruel-tie For the sake of Alamander Rosannie she dies. 
From English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians, Sharp 
Collected from Austin Ritchie, KY, 1917 DT #586 Laws M30