Rolling in the Dew

Notation: traditional
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O where are you going, my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
O I'm a-going a-milking, kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

O shall I go along with you, my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
Why surely you can please yourself, kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

Supposing I should lay you down, my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
Then you'd have to pick me up again kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

Supposing I should dirt your gown my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
Why surely it would wash again kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

Supposing you should be with child, my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
Then you would be the father of it kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

What would you do for linen, my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
My father he's a linen-draper, kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

What would you do for a cradle my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
Why my brother he's a basket maker, kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

Supposing I should go to sea, my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
Then I would follow after you kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

Supposing I should jump overboard my sweet and pretty fair maid?
With your red rosy cheeks and your curly black hair?
Then the devil would jump after you kind sir, she answered me
For it's rolling in the dew makes the milkmaids so fair.

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