Fair Marjorie's Ghost- Stevens (NL) 1959 Peacock
[From: Songs Of The Newfoundland Outports, Volume 2, pp.383-384, by the National Museum of Canada (1965).
R .Matteson 2014]
Fair Marjorie's Ghost- Collected in 1959 from Mrs. Clara Stevens of Bellburns, NL, by Kenneth Peacock
Fair Marjorie was sitting in her bower chamber window
A-combing back her hair,
It was there she saw young Willie and his bride
A-climbing the upper church stair.
She drew the ivory comb out of her hair
And flashed it across the floor,
It was out of the bower chamber window she jumped,
She was never to be seen any more.
About the middle part of the night
When all were fast asleep,
Fair Marjorie appeared in Willie's bedroom
And stood there at his feet.
"Oh, how do you like your blanket," she said,
"And how do you like your sheet,
And how do you like your new married bride
Who lies in your arms asleep?"
"Very well I like my blanket," he said,
"Very well I like my sheet,
But better do I like fair Marjorie
As she stands there at my feet."
She took the ivory comb out of her hair
And smote him across the breast,
Saying, "Be prepared and come along with me
To find your final rest."
He kissed her once and he kissed her twice,
And he kissed her three times o'er,
And then he fell there at her feet
To kiss a woman never more.