Unknown - Angus Hempstead lyrics

ANGUS HEMPSTEAD

(Grit Laskin)

A fair maid walking all in her garden

A crushing flower beds all the while

She just ignores the cobblestone pathway

Thinks I she'll be easy to beguile

So I stepped in view saying, "How do you do, ma'am?"

And may I ask your true love's name

O Angus Hempstead is my true love

Have you brought me news from the raging main

Well, if Angus Hempstead is your true love

Who for many long years has been out to sea

He has become a well known legend

And it's news of this I bring to thee

Twas while the wars were raging fiercely

Both sides decided to stop for tea

And thinking to catch some fish for supper

Bold Angus threw hook and line to sea

Now he hooked a shark that pulled him over

Unto the seabed dragged him down

The sunken ships there tore his body

But still our Angus refused to drown

Well they surfaced every twenty minutes

And as they did we caught a view

Of torn and mangled Angus Hempstead

Whose blood in profusion did spew

His long intestines hung beside him

His single arm, it had no hand

From where we stood, his neck looked broken

And from his mouth and nose fell lumps of sand

Now when this fair maid heard my story

Her stomach, it grew pale and sore

Somehow from this act I decided

She was loyal, so I said, Fair maid, feel sick no more

I am your true love, Angus Hempstead

Here is the ring you gave to me

Through thick and thin, through fair and foul

I've had this ring to remember thee

But a ring like that I've never owned, sir

Twas a coin twas broke twixt Angus and me

I think you are either terribly mistaken

Or somewhat twisted as I can see

So this couple never did get married

And soon to bed they did not go

They never lived in a country cottage

And of her cuckoo's nest, he'll never know

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