Blackwaterside Lyrics - The North Star Grassman And The Ravens - Sandy Denny

One evening fair I took the air 

Down by Blackwaterside 

'Twas gazing all around me 

When the Irish lad I spied 

All through the first part of that night 

We did lie in sport and play, 

When this young man arose and he gathered his clothes, 

Saying, "Fare thee well today". 

That's not the promise that you gave to me 

When the first you lay on my breast, 

You could make me believe with your lying tongue 

That the sun rose in the west. 

Go home, go home, to your father's garden 

Go home and weep your fill, 

And think upon your own misfortune 

Which you bought with your wanton will.