Lyrics Foggy Foggy Dew - Liam Clancy

Foggy Foggy Dew

When I was a batchelor I lived all alone
I worked at the weavers' trade
And all the harm that ever I’d done
It was courting a servant maid
I courted her one winter’s morn, summer’s day or two
And I often times wished her into my arms
Out of the foggy dew, dew, dew
And out of the foggy dew
One night she came to my bedside
As I lay fast asleep
She laid her head, upon my bed
And bitterly she did weep
She wept, she cried, she tore her hair
Saying 'Oh, what shall I do?
For this night I’m resolved to sleep with you
For fear of the foggy dew, dew, dew
For fear of the foggy dew'
So all the forepart of the night, how we did sport and play
All the latter part of the night, she close in my arms did lay
And when the daylight did appear, she said 'I am undone'
Said I, 'Fair maid, be not afraid, for the foggy dew is done, done, done
Oh the foggy dew is done'
One night she started to moan and to cry,
Said I, 'What troubles you?'
She said 'I'd never have been this way
If it hadn’t have been for you'
I got me boots, and me trousers on,
I called my neighbour too
Ah, but do what we could, we could do her no good
And she died in the foggy dew, dew, dew
Oh, she died in the foggy dew
So now I’m a batchelor, I live with my son
We work at the weavers' trade
And when I look in his face I can see
The eyes of that fair young maid
He reminds me of the winter time
And of the summer too
And the many, many times she lay in my arms
For fear of tgr foggy dew, dew, dew
Oh, for fear of the foggy dew.