Young Edmund

Young Emily was a servant girl, her lover a sailor bold
 He ploughed the main much gold to gain for Emily we are told
 When seven years had gone and passed he did return him home
 To show the gold that he had gained down on the lowlands low
 Her father kept a public house, it stood down by the sea
 "Young Edmund you can enter there and all night you can stay
 And I'll meet you here tomorrow, just don't you let my father know
 That your name it is that young Edmund who ploughed the lowlands low"
 As Edmund he did enter there, well all his gold he did show
 Said Emily's cruel father, "This gold shall be your foe
 For your wealth and all you money shall soon my fortunes grow
 And I'll send your body sinking down into the lowlands low"
 As Edmund on his pillow lay and scarce had fell asleep
 It's Emily's cruel father into the room he did creep
 He has dragged and raised him out of bed and to the sea he did go
 And he's sent his body sinking down into the lowlands low
 As Emily on her pillow lay, she had a frightful dream
 She dreamt she saw her young Edmund laid in a crystal stream
 And so early the next morning to her father's house she did go
 Because she loved him dearly who ploughed the lowlands low
 "Oh father where's the stranger, come here last night to lie?"
 "Oh he is dead, no tales he'll tell" her father did reply.
 "Oh father, cruel father, you shall die a public show
 For the murder of that young Edmund who ploughed the lowlands low"
 It's Emily's cruel father, could day nor night take rest
 For the murder of this young Edmund he therefore did confess
 He was tried and he was sentenced and he died a public show
 For the murder of that young Edmund who ploughed the lowlands low