Go, go, thou that enslav’st me,

That sings and flies just where he will,And no one asks him why.I wish I was that little brook,That runs so swift along,Through pretty flowers and shining stones,Singing a merry song.I wish I was that butterfly,Without a thought or care,Sporting my pretty, brilliant wings,Like a flower in the air.I wish I was that wild, wild…

For maids they are simple, and never will grutch,But widows full oft, as they say, know too much.A maid is so sweet, and so gentle of kind,That a maid is the wife I will choose to my mindA widow is froward, and never will yield;Or if such there be, you will meet them but seeld.A…

Christ, that my love were in my armsAnd I in my bed again!

And a look forlorn, for the dear one gone,As they gaze on his vacant chair.There’s a silent grief finds never relief,And a face whence the bloom has fled,And a maiden fair, in her beauty rare,Who weeps for her lover – dead.There’s a lonely grave, where a soldier brave,Lies asleep in the southern land,While a rusted…

He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor,He’d a hand and a heart and a brain.Jesse had a wife to mourn for his life,Three children, they were brave,But that dirty little coward that shot Mister Howard,Has laid Jesse James in his grave.It was Robert Ford, that dirty little coward,I wonder how he…

And tell the doleful tragedyThat late was play’d at Globe;For no man that can sing and sayBut was scar’d on St. Peter’s Day.Oh sorrow, pitiful sorrow, and yet all this is true.All you that please to understand,Come listen to my story,To see Death with his raking brand‘Mongst such an auditory;Regarding neither Cardinal’s might,Nor yet the…