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The Maid that's Deep in Love 
The Maid that's Deep in Love 
I am a maid that's deep in love but yes I can complain And have in the world but one true love and Jimmy is his name And if I do not find my love I'll mourn most constantly And I'll find and follow Jimmy to the lands of liberty 
Then I'll cut off my yellow locks, men's clothing I'll wear on I'll sign to a bold sea captain, my passage I'll work free And I'll find and follow Jimmy to the lands of liberty 
One night all on the raging seas as we go into bed The captain cried "Farewell my boy, I wish you were a maid Your rosy cheeks and ruby lips they are enticing me And I wish to God with all my heart, a maid you were to me" 
"Then hold your tongue, dear captain, such talk is all in vain And if the sailors find it out, they'd laugh and make much game For when we reach Columbia shore some prettier girls you'll find And you'll laugh and sing and court with them, for courting you are inclined" 
Well it was no three days after our ship it reached the shore "Bid adieu my loving captain, adieu for ever more For once I was a sailor on sea but now I am a maiden on shore So I bid adieu to you and all your crew, with you I'll sail no more" 
"Come back, come back, my own pretty maid, come back and marry me I have three thousand pounds in gold and that I'll give to thee So come back, come back, my own pretty maid, come back and marry me" 
recorded by Tim Hart & Maddy Prior on "Folk Songs Of Olde England Vol.1" (1968) 
Note: Strange ending to a song. Whatever happened to true love? MJ MJ