The Brown Girl - Steeleye Span

I’m as brown as brown can be

My eyes are black as sloe

I’m as brick as a night-time nightingale

As wild as the forest doe

My love was high and proud

A fortune by his side

But a fairer maiden than ever I’ll be He took to his bride

He sent me a letter of love

He sent it from the town

He wrote to tell me his love was gone

Because I was so brown

I sent back his letter of love

And in anger I wrote down

Your love is wasted on such as me

Because I am so brown

I’ll dance upon your grave for twelve months and a day

I’ll do as much for you as any maiden may

I’ll make you rue the very day that you were born

I’m a bonny brown girl

I heard not another word more

Until six months passed by

A doctor said he had a broken heart

Without me he would die

I went to his bedside

I walked and never ran

I laughed so loud and then louder still

All at this love-sick man

‘I prithee forget, said he

‘I prithee forget and forgive

Oh, grant me just a little space

That I may be well and live

I’ll dance upon your grave for twelve months and a day

For twelve months and a day

You’ll die for betraying a bonny brown girl

All on one summer’s day