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To Make You Stay

[Lal Waterson]

Sung by Lal Waterson with Richard Thompson and Martin Carthy, acoustic guitars, and Ashley Hutchings, bass guitar, on Lal & Mike Waterson's album Bright Phoebus. This recording was included in 2005 in the anthology Never the Same: Leave-Taking from the British Folk Revival 1970-1977.

Cover Versions

The Memory Band on Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lal Waterson (2007)

Lyrics

To make you stay dear girl, to make you stay,
I'll hide you away in the night time.
No one will find you under my right arm.

Don't you feel happy when it's all done?
Don't you feel sad when you've lost someone?
Dear, dear stay till the dawn comes in;
Teach me to be a summer's morning.

Don't say no, don't smile now and say no;
Give me a smile when the night is gone;
Teach me to be a winter's blossom.

Dear, dear, dear I once had a starling;
Dear, dear, dear a pretty little darling;
Dear, dear, dear but she flew away in the night time,
From under my right arm.