Maid Gone to Comber A maid gone to Comber, her markets to learn, To sell for her mommy three skeins of fine yarn. She met with a young man upon the highway Which caused this young damsel to dally and stray. "Sit down beside me, I mean ye no harm. Sit down beside me this new tune to learn. Here is three guineas your mommy to pay, So lay by your yarn till the next market day." They sat down together, the grass it was green. The day was the fairest that ever was seen. "The look in your eye beats a morning o' May, I would sit by your side till the next market day." This young maid went home and the words that he said, And the air that he played her still rang in her head. She says, "I'll go find him by land or by sea 'Till he learns me that tune called The Next Market Day

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