stay my charmer
tune—“an gille dubh ciar-dhubh.”
stay my charmer, you leave me?
cruel, cruel to deceive me;
well you know how much you grieve me;
cruel charmer, you go!
cruel charmer, you go!
by my love so ill-requited,
by the faith you fondly plighted,
by the pangs of lovers slighted,
do not, do not liave me so!
do not, do not leave me so!