Sheepcrook And Black Dog - Steeleye Span

Here’s my sheep-crook and my black dog

I give it to you

Here’s my bag and my budget

I bid it adieu

Here’s my sheep-crook and my black dog

I leave them behind

Fine laurel, fine floral

You’ve proved all unkind

Here’s my sheep-crook and my black dog

I give it to you

Here’s my bag and my budget

I bid it adieu

Here’s my sheep-crook and my black dog

I leave them behind

Fine laurel, fine floral

You’ve proved all unkind

All to my dear Dinah these words I did say

Tomorrow we’ll be married love, tomorrow is the day

'Tis too soon dear Willy my age is too young

One day to our wedding is one day too soon

I’ll go into service if the day ain’t too late

To wait on a fine lady it is my intent

And when into service a your or two bound

It’s then we’ll get married and both settle down

A little time after a letter was wrote

For to see if my dear Dinah had changed her mind

But she wrote that she’d lived such a contrary life

She said that she’d never be a young shepherd’s wife

Here’s my sheep-crook and my black dog

I give it to you

Here’s my bag and my budget

I bid it adieu

Here’s my sheep-crook and my black dog

I leave them behind

Fine laurel, fine floral

You’ve proved all unkind