kind sir i see you've come again
pray tell me what it's for
i thought i told you on yonder hill
you need not come anymore.

kind miss i have a very fine house
and also a very fine yard
and it should be at your command
if you would be my bride.

kind sir i know you have a very fine house
and also a very fine yard
but who would stay with me every night
while you was playing your cards?

kind miss i have a very fine horse
that stands in yonder barn
and it should be at your command
whenever you wish to ride.

kind sir i know you have a very fine horse
that stands in yonder barn
i'm afraid his master would get drunk
and sell his horse for rum.

kind miss you are a hard old case
and most too hard to please
some cold night when we're alone
i hope to the lord you'll see
it ain't so bad being with me.

i know i am a hard old case
but not too hard for you
it took four years and seventeen days
of loving me to prove
that i could marry a drunkard like you.