Steeleye Span Sheepcrook & Black Dog lyrics

Here's my sheepcrook and my black dog, I give it to you
Here's my bag and my budget, I bid it adieu
Here's my sheepcrook and my black dog, I leave them behind
Fine laurel, fine floral, you've proved all unkind

All to my dear Dinah these words did I say
Tomorrow we'll be married love, tomorrow is the day
'Tis too soon dear Willy, my age is too young
One day to our wedding is one day too soon

I'll go into service if the day ain't too late
To wait on a fine lady, it is my intent
And when into service a year or two bound
It's then we'll get married and both settle down


A little time after a letter was wrote
To see if my Dinah had changed here mind
But she wrote that she's led such a contrary life
She said that she'd never be a young shepherd's wife

Here's my sheepcrook and my black dog, I give it to you
Here's my bag and my budget, I bid it adieu
Here's my sheepcrook and my black dog, I leave them behind
Fine laurel, fine floral, you've proved all unkind