Pretty Maid Lyrics - Clannad

It was on a fine summer's morning 

The birds sweetly tune on each bough 

And as I walked out for my pleasure 

I saw a maid milking a cow 

Her voice was so enchanting, melodious 

Left me quite unable to go 

My heart, it was loaded with sorrow 

For the pretty maid milking her cow 

Then to her I made my advances 

"good morrow most beautiful maid 

Your beauty my heart so entrances" 

"pray sir do not banter," she said 

"i'm not such a rare precious jewel 

That I should enamour you so 

I am but a poor little milk girl," 

Says the pretty maid milking her cow 

The indies afford no such jewel 

So bright, so transparently clear 

I do not add things to my funeral 

Consent but to know me my dear 

Oh, had I the lamp of aladdin 

Or the wealth that gold mines can bestow 

I'd rather be poor in a cottage 

With the pretty girl milking her cow.