Died For Love- Jack Le Feuvre (CI) 1957 Kennedy
[From Kennedy, Ballads of Britain and Ireland. I assume it's translated by Kennedy.
R. Matteson 2017]
Died For Love- sung by Jack Le Feuvre of Sark, Channel Islands, UK on May 3, 1957 (date by Roud) as collected by Peter Kennedy.
1. O, mother dear, you do not know
What pains and sorrows I do undergo;
Bring me a chair for to sit down,
And a pen and ink to write it down.
2. She ran upstairs to make her bed
She laid on it, not a word she said,
He mother ran upstairs to see
But the door was locked, asleep was she.
3. When her father return-ed home,
And asking for his daughter dear,
He ran upstairs and the door he broke,
And found her hanging by a rope.
4. He took his knife and cut her down,
and on her breast these words were found,
O foolish girl, so foolish I
To hang my self for a sailor boy.