Awake! Awake!- Amos Ash (Som) 1905 Hammond
[From: Henry Hammond Manuscript Collection (HAM/2/1/3). This is similar to broadside texts.
R. Matteson 2016]
Awake! Awake! You Drowsy Sleepers- Sung by Amos Ash of Combe Florey, Somerset in April, 1905. Collector: H.E.D. Hammond.
1. "Awake! awake! you drowsy sleepers
Awake! awake! for 'tis almost day.
How can you sleep, love, any longer,
Since you have stole my poor heart away,
How can you sleep, love, any longer,
Since you have stole my poor heart away?"
2. "Awake! awake! come dark my window
That sheds in silence to exclaim"
"It is a youth that loves you dearly, [bis. last two lines]
Come down and ease me of my pain."
3. Her father heard of their conclusions,
Soft-el-y he jumps out of bed
He popped his head out of the window,
And there he heard what was said.
4. "Oh! daughter, dear, tell is the reason,
In your bedroom, you can't take no rest?
I will confine you in your chamber
And unto the seas your love I'll press."
5. "You won't confine me in my chamber,
Nor my true love you shan't press to sea,
For I will send my love a letter,
That he shan't go to Botany Bay."
6. "Oh! father, dear pay me down my fortune,
Pay me down my five hundred bright guineas in store,
And with my love I'll cross the ocean,
Let the hills and valleys be covered with snow."