Drowsy Sleeper Lyrics

Awake, awake, you drowsy sleeper

Awake, awake, it's almost day

Why do you sleep and sleep in slumber

When your true love, lies far away

Go away, don't wake my mother

Forlone's a thing she can't endure

She's been the ruin of many a lover

She'll be the ruin for many a more

Awake, awake, you drowsy sleeper

Awake, awake, cause it's almost day

I've come to win you of your mother

Pray trust yourself in your darling's arms

Oh who's that knocking, knocking at my window

Knock so loud but won't come in

It is your own, true hearted lover

Won't you get up and let him in

I wish I was some little sparrow

And I had wings, could fly so high

I'd fly away, to some lonely valley

And settle down with the one I love

I'll build my house on some far river

And there I'll spend my days and years

And I'll eat nothing but green willow

And drink nothing but my tears