My mother won't mind
 And my father won't slight you
 For your lack of kind
 And she laid her hand on me
 And this she did say
 It will not be long 'till our wedding day

 And she went away from me
 And she moved through the fair
 And fondly I watched her move here and move there
 And then she went onwards
 Just one star awake
 Like the swan in the evening
 Moves over the lake

 Last night she came to me
 My dead love came in
 So softly she came that her feet no din
 And she laid her hand on me
 And this she did say
 It will not be long now
 Till our wedding day