Wake Up Lyrics

Wake up, wake up, you drowsy sleeper.
Wake up, wake up, for it's almost day.
How can you lie, and sleep, and slumber
when your true love is going away?
Oh, who's that knocking at my window?
Oh, who is it, pray tell to me?
It's me, it's me, your own true lover.
Awake, arise, and go with me.

Oh, go love, go, and ask your father
if that this night you could be my bride.
If he says no, return and tell me.
Be the last time that I bother thee.
Oh, I can't go and ask my father,
for he is on his bed of rest,
and by his side there lies a weapon
for to kill the one that I love best.

So I will go to some wide river.
I'll spend my days, my months and years,
eat any thing but the long green willow,
drink salt all from my flowing tears.