Lyrics:

A year ago
my heart's love left me
and he won't return
until he's seen the world
when I see him how
I'll rush into his arms
and smother him with honey-kisses,
Jimmy my darling sweet

My mother and my father
Are wrangling with me always
I'm totally fed up
And tormented by this life
I gave my love to the fairest,
The handsomest one
And he boarded a ship,
Jimmy my darling sweet

These twelve months and better
My darling has left these shore
He ne'er will come back
'Til he travels the globe all o'er
And when he returns with laurels
I'll crown him all o'er
He's the finest of lovers,
Sweet Jimmy my darling sweet

I'll go to the woods
And there live the rest of my life
With no one around,
Listening to the warbling of birds
Beneath the rowan tree
With grass a plenty there
And giving my love to him,
Jimmy my darling sweet

He's the finest of lovers,
Sweet Jimmy my darling sweet