Sent Nine Robbers – Lady Maisery / Father Father
Freda Black
August 2012
well they sent nine robbers
all in one night
to kill my baby
what had just been born
and they left me nothing
to wrap her in
but a linen sheet
that my love died on
so father, father,
come build me a boat
so I may sail on the ocean float
and every vessel what did come near
there she enquired for her sailor boy
so captain, captain,
come tell me true
is my sweet William
aboard your crew?
now what colour eyes
did your true love have?
they were royal blue
and his heart were true
so I think he is drownded
great is my fear
so away she went
in yonders deep
and fell fast asleep
in her true love’s arms
so I done my best
to let no one know
that I courted the sailor, my laddio