Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Oak and the ash, artist - The King's Singers. Album song Watching the White Wheat - Folksongs of the British Isles, in the genre Мировая классика
Date of issue: 17.05.1987
Record label: EMI
Song language: English
The Oak and the ash |
Oh the Oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree. |
How I wish once again in the North, I could be. |
A North Country maid up to London had strayed, |
Although with her nature it did not agree |
She wept and she sighed, and so bitterly she cried |
«How I wish once again in the North I could be! |
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree, |
They flourish at home in my own country.» |
«While sadly I roam I regret my dear home, |
Where lads and young lasses are making the hay. |
The merry bells ring and the birds sweetly sing, |
The meadows are pleasant and maidens are gay. |
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree, |
They flourish at home in my own country.» |
«No doubt, did I please, I could marry with ease, |
For where maidens are fair many lovers will come, |
But the one whom I wed must be North Country bred, |
And tarry with me in my North Country home. |
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree, |
They flourish at home in my own country.» |
How I wish once again in the North, I could be. |