Martin Carthy And Dave Swarbrick - I Courted A Damsel lyrics

I courted a damsel of the fairest beauty bright And I did my best endeavour to gain my heart's delight I courted her for love and for love of her I did attain I did attain My love she had no reason at all for to complain When that her father he came this for to know That I courted his dear daughter his darling daughter so So quickly he give orders that I be pressed and sent to sea and sent to sea To keep me from his daughter my darling's company When that I'd served my seven long years at sea So quickly I come homeward my darling dear to see As soon as I enquired her father thus to me replied to me replied My daughter she did break her heart and for your sake she died Don't tell me don't tell me for it's more than I can bear For if she's in her silent grave I wish that I were there Then I would be free from bitter sorrow grief and woe from grief and woe I know not where to wander now which way I may go It was down in New Bedlam this young man was confined For in weeping for his own true love did so distract his mind In rattling of his chains all on his bed of straw he lies on straw he lies Lamenting for his own true love until the day he dies