Donal Og - Barbara Dickson

And if you should go across the water

Take me with you to be your partner

At fair and market you’ll be well looked after

And you shall sleep with the Greek King’s daughter

Oh Donal Og, you’ll not find me lazy

Like many a high born expensive lady

I’ll do your milking, I’ll nurse your baby

And if you’re set on, I’ll defend you bravely

I saw you first on a Sunday evening

Before the Easter, as I was kneeling

'Twas of Christ’s passion that I was reading

But my mind was on you, and my own heart bleeding

Black as the sloe is the heart that’s in me

Black as the coal is the grief that blinds me

Black as the bootprint on shining hallway

'Twas you that blackened it, ever and alway

For you took what’s before me and what’s behind me

Took East and West when you would not mind me

Sun, moon and stars from my sky have been taken

And God as well, or I’m much mistaken