Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: The House Carpenter's Daughter

Diver Boy Lyrics

Young Emily was fair lady bright

 She loved her diver boy

 Who sailed over the ocean

 To gather up some gold

 Seven long years returning, 

 His money for to show

 He'd been sailing over the main

 Down in the low land, low 

 

 "my father runs a big hotel

 Down by the river side

 You go there go for to stay

 And I shall be your bride

 Meet me early morning

 Don't let my parents know

 You have been the diver boy

 Down in the low land, low" 

 

 Young Henry taking a drink

 That night before he went to bed

 Not thinking of the danger

 That crowned all over his head

 Young Edward said to his father, 

 "let's take his money sure

 And send his body sinking fast

 Down in the low land, low" 

 

 Young Emily went to be that night

 She dreamed an awful dream

 She dreamed she saw

 Her true love's blood

 Go flowing down the stream

 Waking early morning

 To parents she did say, 

 "where could be that stranger boy

 Who came here for to stay?" 

 

 "oh, father you're a robber

 You robbed me of my wren! 

 Oh brother you have murdered

 The one that I loved best! 

 The trees on yonder mountain

 Are bending to and fro

 They remind me of my diver boy

 Down in the low land, low"