I always saw,
I always said If I were grown and free,
I'd have a gown of reddest red As fine as you could see,
To wear out walking, sleek and slow, Upon a Summer day,
And there'd be one to see me so And flip the world away.
And he would be a gallant one, With stars behind his eyes,
And hair like metal in the sun, And lips too warm for lies.
I always saw us, gay and good, High honored in the town.
Now I am grown to womanhood…. I have the silly gown.
