X:1
T:Sovay
M:none
B:Martin Carthy: A Guitar in Folk Music
S:Bert Lloyd
Z: Based on other versions
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
Q:1/4=100
L:1/8
K:F#m
A2G A G2A2(F G) A G2
w:So-vay, So-vay all on_ a day,
A2F F G2E2(C D) E F2
w:She dressed her-self in man's_ ar-ray
A B c c B2c A F F E3
w: With a sword and pis-tol all by her side
C2F G A2F3/2 F/2 F F c2c B A G F4|]
w:To meet her true love, to meet her true love a-way did ride
W:Sovay, Sovay all on a day
W:She dressed herself in man's array
W:With a sword and a pistol all by her side
W:To meet her true love to meet her true love away did ride.
W:
W:And as she was a-riding over the plain
W:She met her true love and bid him stand
W:Your gold and silver kind sir she said
W:Or else this moment or else this moment your life I'll have.
W:
W:And when she'd robbed him of his store
W:She says kind sir there is one thing more
W:A golden ring which I know you have
W:Deliver it deliver it your sweet life to save.
W:
W:Oh that golden ring a token is
W:My life I'll lose the ring I'll save.
W:Being tender-hearted just like a dove
W:She rode away she rode away from her true love.
W:
W:Oh next morning in the garden green
W:Just like true lovers they were seen
W:Oh he spied his watch hanging by her clothes
W:And it made him blush made him blush like any rose.
W:
W:Oh what makes you blush at so silly a thing
W:I thought to have had your golden ring
W:It was I that robbed you all on the plain
W:So here's your watch here's your watch and your gold again.
W:
W:I did intend and it was to know
W:If that you were me true love or no
W:For if you'd have give me that ring she said
W:I'd have pulled the trigger I'd have pulled the trigger and shot you dead.