Eliza And Martin Carthy - Died For Love lyrics

It was early, early on a sunny day in spring
 My love has 'listed for to serve the king
 And the wind blow high and the wind blow low
 And it parted me and my young sailor boy "Father, father, will you build me a boat
 That on the cold ocean I may float?
 And every king's ship that we pa** by
 There make inquiries for my sailor boy" She hadn't been a-sailing so very far upon the deep
 When her first king ship she chanced to meet
 And it's, “Captain, captain, please tell me true
 Does my sweet William sail on board with you?” "What colour is your true lover's hair?
 What sort of jacket does your true love wear?" "His jacket's blue, it's piped round with gold
 And his hair it is the same colour as yours" "Oh no, fair maiden, I'm afraid he isn't here
 But he's been drownded, that I greatly fear
 On yon green ocean as we pa**ed by
 There we lost sight of your young William boy" Didn't she wring her hands a little while and tore her hair
 Much like some maiden in great despair
 "Oh happy, happy is the girl," she cried
 "What has her own true lover by her side" Her father he came home late at night
 He's looking round for, for his heart's delight
 He went upstairs and the door he broke
 And he found her hanging by a rope Didn't he take him a knife so long and sharp and cut her down
 And in her bosom well a note was found
 Being written in blood just to testify
 That for her true love William she did die "Won't you dig me a grave so very wide, so very deep
 And put a marble stone at, at my head and feet
 And in the middle place a snow-white dove
 Just to let the world know that I died for love"