Come Away, Death

[Verse 1]

Come away, come away, death

And in sad Cyprus let me be laid

Fly away, fly away, breath

I am slain by a fair cruel maid

My shroud of white stuck all with yew

O prepare it

My part of death no one so true

Did share it

[Chorus]

Come away, come away, death

[Verse 2]

Not a flower, not a flower, sweet

On my black coffin let there be strown

Not a friend, not a friend, greet

My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown

A thousand thousand sighs to save

Lay me over, O, where

Sad true lover never find my grave

To weep there

[Chorus]

Come away, come away, death