Come away come away death
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away fly away breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid
My shroud of white stuck all
with yew
O prepare it
My part of death
no one so true Did share it
Not a flower not a flower sweet
On my black coffin let there be
strown
Not a friend not a friend greet
My poor corpse when my bones
shall be thrown
A thousand thousand sighs to save
Lay me O where
Sad true lover never find my
grave
To weep there
To weep
To weep there
Come away come away death
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away fly away breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid
My shroud of white stuck all
with yew
O prepare it
My part of death
no one so true Did share it
Not a flower not a flower sweet
On my black coffin let there be
strown
Not a friend not a friend greet
My poor corpse when my bones
shall be thrown
A thousand thousand sighs to save
Lay me O where
Sad true lover never find my
grave
To weep there
To weep
To weep there