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Miller and the Lass

[trad. arr. E. Carthy, S. Rose, E. Boyd]

Sung and played by Eliza Carthy on her album Rice with Saul Rose playing melodeon and singing chorus and Ed Boyd playing guitar.

Lyrics

There was a buxom and a brisk young lass,
Went down to the mill one day-o
To get some corn oh for to grind
But the devil out there to the miller could she find

Chorus (after each verse):

Singing dum dub a dum dum day

At last the miller boy he did come in,
And this young girl she did begin:
“I've a bag of corn oh for to grind
But I can't stay I've a very little time”

“Come, sit you down, my sweet pretty dear
I cannot grind your corn I fear;
My stones is high and the water's low,
And I can't grind for the mill won't go.”

So she sat down on a sack,
And he talked of this, and he talked of that,
He talked of love, of her love proved kind
And she soon found that the mill would grind.

Acknowledgements

Transcribed by Kira White. Thanks also to Steve Willis for further assistance.