When I was a young girl

I use to seek pleasure

When I was a young girl

I use to drink ale

Out of the alehouse down into the jailhouse

My body salvated and hell is my doom

Come mama come papa

And sit you down by me

Come sit you down by me

And pity my case

My poor head is aching

My sad heart is breaking

My body salvated and hell is my doom

We sent for the preacher

To come and pray for me

And sent for the doctor

To heal all my wounds

My poor head is aching

My sad heart is breaking

My body salvated

And im bound to die

One morning one morning one morning in May

I saw this young lady all wrapped in white linen

All wrapped in white linen

And call out "the plague"