The lover's curse

This one and that one will court him,

but e'er he gets any but me

both daily and hourly I'll curse them

that stole lovely Jamie from me.

Far in the land of the stranger

six hundred long miles o'er the sea,

to fight in the lowlands of Holland

they stole lovely Jamie from me.

Sadness and weeping are on me

for the lad that is over the sea,

but daily and hourly I'll curse them

that stole lovely Jamie from me.