The Foggy Dew

I courted her all of the winter

And part of the summer, too

All the harm that I have done

Was to court a pretty fair maid

One night she came to my bedside

Bitterly she did weep

Come to my bed, my pretty fair maid

Get out of the foggy dew

She laid in my arms till broad daylight

The sun began to shine

I turned my back on the pretty fair maid

Goodbye, my love, I'm gone

Toward the first part of the year

She took pale in the face

Along toward the latter part of the year

She got bigger around the waist

Along toward the last of the year

She brought me a son

Now, you see as well as I

What the foggy dew has done

I've taken this girl and I married her

I loved her as my life

I've taken this girl and I married her

She made me a virtuous wife

I never throwed it up to her

And damn my eyes if I do

For every time the baby cried

I'd think of the foggy dew