The Cocks Are Crowing

The cocks are crowing, daylight is appearing

It's drawing nigh to the break of day

Arise, my darling, out of your slumber

Arise, my darling, and let me in

And when he came to his true love's window

He kneeled low down upon a stone

And through the window he whispered softly

"Arise, my darling, and let me in"

"Well, who is that that is at my window?

And who is that that gives me no rest?"

"'Tis I, 'tis I a poor wounded lover

Who fain would speak with you, love, awhile"

"Then go away, love, and ask your daddy

If he would have you my bride to be

But if he says no then return and tell me

For this is the last time I will trouble thee"

"Oh my dada is in his bed chamber

He's fast asleep on his bed of ease

But in his pocket there lies a letter

Which reads far, love, on to your disgrace"

"Oh what disgrace can he do unto me?

A faithful husband to you I'll be

And what other neighbours have 'round their houses

The same, my darling, you would have with me"

"Then go away, love, and ask your mammy

If she would have you my bride to be

But if she says no then return and tell me

For this is the last time I will trouble thee"

"Oh my mama, she's an old aged woman

And scarce can hear, love, one word I say

But she'd have you go, love, and court some other

For I'm not a fitting girl your bride to be"

"I'll go away but I'll court no other

My heart is linked all on your charms

I'd have you go, love, and leave your mammy

For you're only fit to lie in your love's arms"

"I'll go away unto the wild mountains

Where I'll see nothing but the wild deer

And I'll eat nothing but the wild herbs sure

I'll drink nothing but my true love's tears"

"And if the Kellybawn, it were mine in the chorus

And the green fields, they were mine and wide

If my pen was made of the tempered steel sure

My true love's praises I could never write"

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