CORRECT LYRICS

Lyrics : Border Widow’s Lament

My love, he built me a bonny bower
And clad it o'er with lily flower
A finer bower you ne'er did see
Than my true love he built for me

There came a man by middle day
He spied his sport and went away
And brought the King that very night
Who broke my bower and slew my knight

He slew my knight to me so dear
He slew my knight and poin'd his gear
My servants all for life did flee
And left me in extremity

I sewed his sheet, making my moan
I watched the corpse, myself alone
I watched the body night and day
Well, no living creature came that way

I took his body on my back
And whiles I went and whiles I sat
I digged a grave and I laid him in
And happed him with the sod so green