trad
Fay Hield performed it in 2013, after she found it in the Lucy Broadwood Broadside Collection which largely contains songs compiled 1898-1928 when Broadwood helped found EFDSS. Final verse by Alex Ellis.
Chorus:
O meet me in the willow glen, When the silvery moon is gleaming;
Songs of love I’ll sing you then, When the world is still in dreaming,
If you’ll meet me in the willow glen.
No prying eye will come, my love, No stranger foot be seen;
And all the village hum, my love, Will echo on the wind
If you’ll meet me in the willow glen.
To melodious mandolins, My song I’ll softly blend, love,
While to thee my melody A soothing balm will lend
If you’ll meet me in the willow glen.
So come if you’ll consent my love I’ll bring a merry bottle
And all night long we’ll share in song Til silvery moon descends
If you’ll meet me in the willow glen