The moon was shining bright-e-ly, the stars were twinkling clear When he went to his loves window to ease her of her pain And she quick-e-ly rose and let him in and went to bed again
My father and my mother in yonder room do lay They are embracing one another and so may you and I They are embracing one another without a fear or doubt Saying: Take me in your arms, my love, and blow the candle out
My mother shed be ang-e-ry if she should come to know My father hed be angry too, to prove my overthrow I wouldnt forfeit five guineas now that they should find me out Saying: Take me in your arms, my love, and blow the candle out
O when your baby it is born you may dandle it on your knee And if it be a baby boy then name it after me For when nine months are over my apprenticeship is out Ill return and do my duty and blow the candle out
Now six months they were over, six months and a day He wrote his love a letter that he was going away He wrote his love a letter without a fear or doubt Saying he never should return again to blow the candle out
Come, all you pretty young local girls, a warning take by her And dont be quick to fall in love with everyone you hear For when theyre in their prenticeship theyll swear their time is out Then theyll leave you, as hers left her, to blow the candle out