Awake, Awake Songtext
von Elizabeth LaPrelle

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 hold a weapon
He says he'll kill the one I love best

Come Polly Bawn, 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 was made to bloom, love
Pretty stars was made to shine
Pretty girls was made for boys to love
And maybe you was made for mine