She had a dark and roving eye, she was a charming rover, And we rode all night, through the pale moonlight away down to Lamorna.
Her hair hung down in curls, she was a charming rover, And we rode all night, through the pale moonlight, away down to Lamorna.
As we got in the cab, I asked her for her name, And when she gave it me, well, mine it was the same, So I lifted up her veil, for her face was covered over, And to my surprise, it was my wife, I took down to Lamorna.
Chorus Lamorna (Roud 16636) is a traditional folk song/ballad associated with Cornwall, and dealing with the courtship of a man and a woman, who turned out to be his wife.
[6]) Inglis Gundry notes in his introduction to Canow Kernow (published by the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, 1966): '...the process of balladry still goes on.