Folk Songs from Sussex - No. 5, O Who Is That That Raps at My Window? (Arr. for Voice & String Quartet by Roderick Williams) (苏塞克斯民歌集 - 第5首，哦，是谁在敲我的窗？（罗德里克·威廉姆斯改编为声乐与弦乐四重奏）) (Voice and string quartet)

(The Daughter) ‘O, who is that that raps at my window,

As I lie on my bed of ease?

I’ll go and write my love a letter,

And he will read it when he please.’

‘My daddy lies in the next chamber,

My mammy does so quickly hear,

Begone, begone and court some other,

And whisper softly in her ear.’

(The Lover) ‘I won’t be gone, I love no other,

You are the girl I love so dear.

It’s I, my love, who love you dearly,

It’s the pains of love that have brought me here.’

(The Father) ‘O daughter, daughter, I will confine you,

I will confine you all in your room.

And you shall live on bread and water,

Day after day, so late at noon.’

(The Daughter) ‘I’ll have none of your bread and water,

Nor nothing else that you might have.

If I can’t have my heart’s desire,

Single I will go to my grave.’