1: Johnny he promised to marry me,
But I fear he's with some fair one gone;
There's something bewails him and I don't know what it is,
And I'm weary from lying alone.

2: Johnny come here at the appointed hour,
And he's tapped at her window so long;
This fair maid arose and she's hurried on her clothes,
And she's welcomed her true lover in.

3: She took him by the hand and she’s laid him down,
She felt he was colder than clay;
“O my dearest dear if I only had one wish,
This long night would ne’er turn to day.”

4: “Crow up, crow up my little bird,
And don’t you crow before the break o day;
Your cage shall be made of the glittering gold,
And its doors o the silvery grey.”

5: “Where is your soft bed of down my love,
And where is your white holland sheet?
And where is the fair maid who watches over you,
While you’re taking your long silent sleep?”

6: “The sand is my soft bed of down my love,
The sea is my white holland sheet;
And the long hungry worms will feed off of me,
While I sleep every night in the deep.”

7: “When will I see you again my love,
O when will I see you again?”
“When the little fishes fly and the seas they do run dry,
And the hard rocks they melt in the sun.