My young love said to me My mother won’t mind And my father won’t slight you For your lack of kind As she stepped away from me And this she did say "It will not be long love ‘Til our wedding day" She stepped away from me As she moved through the fair And fondly I watched her Go here and go there Then she went homeward With one star awake As the swan in the evening Moves over the lake. The people were saying no two were ere wed But one has a sorrow that never was said And I smiled as she passed with her goods and her gear And that was the last that I saw of my dear. I dreamt it last night that my young love came in So softly she came Her feet made no din And she laid her hand on me And this she did say "It will be long love ‘Til our wedding day".