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Roud catalogues most of the English versions of this song as Roud 22620 and the American versions as Roud 22621. Some variations include “Arise, Arise,” “The Silver Dagger,” and “The Drowsy Sleeper.” I learned it from Elizabeth LaPrelle’s Lizard in the Spring. At the moment this version is my favorite because of the concise, happy ending, and for the melodic
variation on the fourth and fifth verses.

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Awake, awake, you drowsy sleeper
Awake, awake, it is almost day
How can you sleep, you cruel creature
Since you have stolen my heart away?

Oh, hush, hush, hush, don’t you wake my mother
No songs of love will she let me hear
If you sing songs, go pray court some other
Or whisper lowly in my ear

My father lies in the next room simple
Taking of his natural rest
And in his right hand he holds a weapon
He says he’ll kill the one I love best

Come Polly Von, come, you’ll stop my pining
Sit you down by the side of me
And put your loving arms around me
And say you’ll love no one but me

I’ll go with you in some lonesome valley
There I will spend my days with you
Though all my meals will be of the freshest berries
And the water I drink of the morning dew

Pretty flowers were made to bloom, love
Pretty stars were made to shine
Pretty girls were made for boys to love
And maybe you were made for mine

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from My Mind From Love Being Free, released May 1, 2015

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Lindsay Straw Boston, Massachusetts

Traditional folk singer, guitarist & bouzouki player.

"Hearken(s) back to more innocent times, of Greenwich Village and pure folk." - The Living Tradition

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