Whistle daughter whistle
What makes you look so sad
Good news my darling mother
Would make my heart feel glad

I'm pinning dearest mother
This long and weary year
'Tis well you know the good news
I would love to hear

Then whistle daughter whistle
And you will get a lad
if that's the news dear mother
I'll stay the way I am

My little sister Mary
Can take the lambs away
'Cos I am now a woman
With lambs I cannot play

Then whistle daughter whistle
And you will get a sheep
Oh no my darling mother
It wouldn't let me sleep

To keep the sheep dear mother
It wouldn't with my care
To feed it night and morning
Is more than I could bare

Then whistle daughter whistle
And you will get a man
(whistling)

Daughter dearest daughter
Why do you whistle so
because I love a young man
The lambs and sheep can go
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