Awake! Awake!- Mrs Gould (Dorset) 1906 Hammond
[From: Henry Hammond Manuscript Collection (HAM/3/19/2). This is similar broadside texts.
R. Matteson 2016]
Awake! Awake! You Drowsy Sleeper- Sung by Mrs. Gould of Morecombelake, Dorset in May 1906. Collected by H.E.D. Hammond.
"Awake, awake, you drowsy sleeper.
Awake, awake! 'Tis almost day.
How can you sleep, my charming creature,
Since you have stole my poor heart away?"
Who's there, who's there under my window
So late all in the night?"
"Tis I, tis I," the young sportsman answered
"Long time been waiting for your sight."
Her father hearing their conclusions,
He popped his head out of the window.
"Daughter, daughter, what is the reason,
I, in my bed, no rest can take?
I will confine you in your chamber
And your true love I'll send to sea."
"Father, father give me my portion,
Which is five hundred pounds, you know,
And I'll cross the wide ocean with him,
Where the hills and fields are all covered with snow."