Come sit you down upon my knee
 And tell to me the very reason
 Why I am slighted so by thee

 I am so deep in love that I can?t deny it
 My heart lies smothered in my breast
 But it?s not for you to let the world know it
 A troubled mind can find no rest

 I leaned myself on a cask of whiskey
 It was my fancy, I do declare
 For when I?m drinking, I?m always thinking
 Wishing Peggy Gordon was there

 I wished I was in a lonesome valley
 Where womankind cannot be found
 where all the birds do change their voices
 And every moment a different sound

 I wish I was away in Ingo
 Far away across the sea
 Sailing over deepest waters
 Where love nor care never trouble me