Sovay the Female Highwayman

Sophie, Sophie, all in a day

She dressed herself in mitten's array

With a brace of pistols all at her side

To meet her true love, to meet her true love, away she ride

As she was galloping out on the plain

She met her sweetheart and bade him stand

"Stand and deliver, young man," she said

"If'n you do not, if'n you do not, I'll shoot you dead"

He delivered up his golden store

And still she craved for one thing more

"That diamond ring that I see you wear

Oh hand it over, oh hand it over and your life I'll spare"

"From me diamond ring I wouldn't part

For it's a token from me sweetheart

Shoot and be damned you rogue," said he

"And you'll be hanged then, and you'll be hanged for murdering me"

She being soft hearted much like a dove

She turned her horse and she rode away from her true love

Next morning in the garden green

Young Sophie and her love was seen

He spied his watch hanging by her clothes

Which made him blush lads, which made him blush like any rose

"Why do you blush you foolish thing?"

"I thought to have that diamond ring

'Twas I who robbed you all on the plain

And here's your gold love, and here's

Your gold and your watch and chain"

"I only did it for to know

Whether you were a man or no

If you had given me that ring," she said

"I'd have pulled the trigger, I'd

Pulled the trigger and shot you dead"