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Sovay, Sovay all on a day
She dressed herself in man’s array
With a sword and a pistol all by her side
To meet her true love, to meet her true love, away did ride.

And as she was a-riding over the plain
She met her true love and bid him stand;
“Your gold and silver, kind Sir,” she said,
“Or else this moment, or else this moment, your life I’ll have.”

And when she’d robbed him of his store
She says, “Kind sir, there is one thing more:
A golden ring which I know you have,
Deliver it, deliver it, your sweet life to save.”

“Oh that golden ring a token is:
My life I’ll lose, the ring I’ll save.”
Being tender-hearted just like a dove,
She rode away, she rode away, from her true love.

Oh next morning in the garden green
Just like true lovers they were seen;
Oh he spied his watch hanging by her clothes
And it made him blush, made him blush like any rose.

“Oh what makes you blush at so silly a thing,
I thought to have had your golden ring:
It was I that robbed you all on the plain,
So here’s your watch, here’s your watch and your gold again.”

“I did intend and it was to know
If that you were me true love or no.
For if you’d have give me that ring,“ she said,
“I’d have pulled the trigger, I’d have pulled the trigger, and shot you dead.”

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from A Brief History of Music, released September 1, 2013

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GreenMatthews Coventry, UK

Chris Green and Sophie Matthews play English traditional songs and tunes in a thoroughly 21st-century kick-ass style. Using a blend of ancient instruments such as cittern, English bagpipes and shawm as well as modern folk instruments such as guitar, flute and piano accordion, they breathe new life into material from hundreds of years ago, making it fresh and relevant for a modern audience. ... more

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