Dave Webber 1984
Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman: Bonnet & Shawl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq0QB96EdQc
Chorus: I’ll show the sun ‘cross the fields in the morn, I’ll fetch thee a bonnet and deck it with corn, I’ll buy thee a shawl, thread with ribbons of blue, To show you the measure I trouble for you. Now madam I’ve waited a very long time, To ask you if you could but spare me some time, For there’s things in me heart I’ve been longing to say, But try as I might sure I can’t find a way. Now I know that me fortune be pitiful small, And apart from me cottage I’ve nothing at all, But there’s store in me garden and fruit on me tree, And I’ll be awful proud if thou’d share it with me. Now I’m thinking it likely as you’ll never be mine, For I’d be a poor catch for a woman so fine, But if I never ask thee then I’ll never know, If by some small chance you some favour might show. Now Madam I see by the look in your eye, That you might be thinking the same thing as I, So come take me hand and we’ll walk in full view, And give the old gossips some tonguing to do.