SONG Chelmsford Maid
1
'Twas on a summer's morning
I happened for to stray
When the farmers got the corn in
All by the break of day
Down the bonny Che[l]msford meadows
By the river running clear
There I met a modest maiden
In that gay time of the year
2
O bonny was her rosey face
And handsome was her gown
The sweetest girl in any place
The fairest in the town
Her eyes were dark like waters deep
When black clouds pass the sun
And o'er her gown two white hills peep
Like snow when springs begun
3
Her bosom's like a heap of snow
Among springs early flowers
Or lilys that in bunches grow
Among the rosey bowers
O bonny maid of Chelmsford town
Thy beauty is divine
There's many a breast as soft as down
But few so fair as thine
4
Her face is as the apple round
And reddens to the sun
When passing bye I see the ground
With heart already won
I passed her on one morn in May
Her eyes were looking down
And then my heart was ta'en away
By that rose of Chelmsford town
