Jenny Bryce

This morn as I was lost in thought, as up the hill I wandered
And sitting there to greet the dawn, upon my life I pondered
I glanced along the shaded grove where often I had been
With Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter
Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter

Some said of tinker's stock, baptized by flowing water
Old Jack, he was disposed to roam, and so his only daughter
And me a lad of seventeen, I left my parent's home
With sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rovеr's daughter
Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack thе Rover's daughter

From wooded glen to heathered moor, with Jenny I went roving
Her voice so sweet made soft the road, from daylight til day's closing
And when at night I laid to rest, t'was in my true loves arms
She was Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter
Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter

One day says she, "Oh Willie, I weary of the road"
So a fine small house I built for us, down in yon shaded grove
And there, with Jenny by my side, I led a settled life
With sweet Jenny as companion, and as wife

Then one day says she, "Oh Willie, a child for us I bear"
And all that winter long I worked and helped her to prepare
But none but God could help her, with a birth such as she saw
She was Jenny Bryce, she bore for us a daughter
She was Jenny Bryce, she bore for us a daughter

Six tortured hours she lingered, and never once complained
And all there was to do for her, I did to ease her pain
And when morning came I formed a cross, and carved on it her name
I carved Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter
Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter

And this morn as I was lost in thought, twas down the hill I ambled
Back along the shaded stream, where with my love I rambled
To greet a child of seven years, that bears her mother's name
She is Jenny Bryce, Jenny Bryce's daughter
Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jenny Bryce's daughter