Lowlands Low- Young (NL) 1929 Mansfield
[From: Ballads and Sea-Songs of Newfoundland, Page 43 by Elizabeth Bristol Greenleaf, Grace Yarrow Mansfield - 1933. One of two fragments collected from Newfoundland. My title.
R. Matteson 2014]
19. THE GOLDEN VANITIE (CHILD, No. 286)
FRAGMENTS
Sung by Mrs. Herbert Young, Twillingate, 1929.
The boy bent his breast and round swam he,
He swam till he reached the larboard side,
With an auger in his hand he bored it through her twice
While some were playing cards and more were were playing dice.
And I'll sink her in the Lowland sea, the lowlands,
I'll sink her in the lowlands low.
. . . .
And he let the water in and put out all her lights,
As she sailed along the lowlands, the lowlands,
As she sailed along the lowlands low.