Lyrics

This morn as I was lost in thought, as up the hill I wandered And sitting there to greet the dawn, upon my life I pondered I glanced along the shaded grove where often I had been With Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter Some said of tinker's stock, baptized by flowing water Old Jack, he was disposed to roam, and so his only daughter And me a lad of seventeen, I left my parent's home With sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rovеr's daughter Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack thе Rover's daughter From wooded glen to heathered moor, with Jenny I went roving Her voice so sweet made soft the road, from daylight til day's closing And when at night I laid to rest, t'was in my true loves arms She was Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter One day says she, "Oh Willie, I weary of the road" So a fine small house I built for us, down in yon shaded grove And there, with Jenny by my side, I led a settled life With sweet Jenny as companion, and as wife Then one day says she, "Oh Willie, a child for us I bear" And all that winter long I worked and helped her to prepare But none but God could help her, with a birth such as she saw She was Jenny Bryce, she bore for us a daughter She was Jenny Bryce, she bore for us a daughter Six tortured hours she lingered, and never once complained And all there was to do for her, I did to ease her pain And when morning came I formed a cross, and carved on it her name I carved Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jack the Rover's daughter And this morn as I was lost in thought, twas down the hill I ambled Back along the shaded stream, where with my love I rambled To greet a child of seven years, that bears her mother's name She is Jenny Bryce, Jenny Bryce's daughter Sweet Jenny Bryce, Jenny Bryce's daughter