Name: Awake, Awake
Duration: P00H04M25S
Description: Tune and text from a traditional broadside ballad.

Awake, Awake

from Music Book by Wheeler, Sablosky and Pearson

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Tune and text from a traditional broadside ballad.

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Awake, awake, you drowsy sleeper
Awake, awake, it's almost day
How can you sleep? You cruel creature
Since you have stolen my heart away

Oh hush, oh hush, don't wake my mother
No songs of love will she let me hear
If you sing songs, go court another
Or whisper lowly in my ear

Oh, go love, go and ask your mother
If you my bride, my bride shall be
If she says no, come back and tell me
It'll be the last I'll bother thee

Come Polly Bawn, come stop my pining
Sit you down by the side of me
And put your loving arms around me
And say you'll love no one but me

I'll go with you in some lone valley
There I will spend my days with you
My meals will be of the freshest berries
And the water I drink of the morning dew

My father lies in the next room simple
Taking of his natural rest
And in his right hand he holds a weapon
He says he'll kill the one I love best

My daddy is a handsome devil
He's got a chain five miles long
And on every link a heart does dangle
Of another maid he's loved and wronged

Oh I'll go down in some lone valley
I'll spend my weeks, my months, my years
And I'll eat nothing but green willows
And I'll drink nothing but my tears

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from Music Book, released January 6, 2023

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