King Billy Sessions
  Weary Waiting  
         
   

Oh daughter dear, what will you have now?
A man that earns his bread by the plough?
Oh no dear father, oh no dear father
A ploughman's wife has o'or much to do

Chorus
Oh but I'm weary, weary waiting
Oh but I'm weary night and day
Oh give me the lad I love best
To carry my weariness away.

Oh daughter dear, what will you have then
A man that earns his bread by the gun?
Oh no dear father, oh no dear father
He might get shot and ne'er return

Chorus

Oh daughter dear, then what will ye hae?
A man that earns his bread by the sea?
Oh no dear father, oh no dear father
His ship might wrecked and ruined be

Chorus

Oh daughter dear, what will you have then?
A man that earns his bread by the pen?
Oh yes dear father. oh yes dear father
It's a gentleman I do incline

Chorus


Learned from Rosemary Redpath in the 1960s

 
         
 

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