Lyrics
When I was a bachelor young and bold
I followed a roving trade
And the only thing that ever I done
Was I courted a fair young maid
I wooed her all the summer time
And part of the winter too
And the only thing that ever I done
Was to keep off the foggy dew
It was one night about twelve o'clock
When I lay fast asleep
There came this maid to my bedside
And bitterly she did weep
She wept, she sighed, she tore her hair
And she cried, "What shall I do?"
So all that night I held her tight
Just to keep off the foggy dew
I never told nobody her name
And damn me if I do
But many's the time I think of that night
When I kept off the foggy dew