Shepherd Park- Elizabeth Smithers (Glou) 1908 Sharp MS

Shepherd Park- Elizabeth Smithers [Smitherd]  (Glou) 1908 Sharp MS

[Three stanzas with music from Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge) (CJS2/9/1498). Informant's last name usually spelled Smitherd in MS, also appears as Smithers.

R. Matteson 2017]


Shepherd Park - sung by Elizabeth Smithers [Smitherd] of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire on April 11, 1908

Down in Shepherd Park did dwell
A handsome young man, I loved him well;
He courted me my fair heart to gain,
Until he left me  full of pain.

I went upstairs unto my bed,
And there I lay and nothing said;
My mistress came and to me said;
What is it that aileth thee my maid?

O mistress, you do little know,
What pain and sorrow I undergo;
put your right hand on my left breast,
My panting heart can take no rest.