Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Brown and the Yellow Ale, artist - Karan Casey. Album song Chasing the Sun, in the genre Кельтская музыкаDate of issue: 21.05.2006
Record label: Vertical
Song language: English
The Brown and the Yellow Ale |
| As I was going down the road one fine morning |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| I met with a young man without any warning |
| Oh love of my heart |
| He asked me if the woman by my side was my daughter |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| When I said she was my wife his manner did not altar |
| Oh love of my heart |
| He asked me if I’d lend her for an hour and a day |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| I said if she thinks it fair you may take her away |
| Oh love of my heart |
| She said you take the high road and I’ll take off with him |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| And we’ll meet again by the ford in the river |
| Oh love of my heart |
| I was waiting by the ford for an hour and a quarter |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| When she came to me 'twas without shame I saw her |
| Oh love of my heart |
| When she told me her story I lay down and I died |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| She sent two men out for timber well she never even cried |
| Oh love of my heart |
| A board of alder and a board of holly |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| And two greater yards of a shroud all about me |
| Oh love of my heart |
| Now if my own little mother had never been a woman |
| Oh the brown and the yellow ale |
| I would sing you many’s another song about the women |
| Oh love of my heart |