Young Emily was fair lady bright
  She loved her diver boy
  Who sailed over the ocean
  To gather up some gold
  Seven long years returning,
  His money for to show
  He'd been sailing over the main
  Down in the low land, low
  
  "my father runs a big hotel
  Down by the river side
  You go there go for to stay
  And I shall be your bride
  Meet me early morning
  Don't let my parents know
  You have been the diver boy
  Down in the low land, low"
  
  Young Henry taking a drink
  That night before he went to bed
  Not thinking of the danger
  That crowned all over his head
  Young Edward said to his father,
  "let's take his money sure
  And send his body sinking fast
  Down in the low land, low"
  
  Young Emily went to be that night
  She dreamed an awful dream
  She dreamed she saw
  Her true love's blood
  Go flowing down the stream
  Waking early morning
  To parents she did say,
  "where could be that stranger boy
  Who came here for to stay?"
  
  "oh, father you're a robber
  You robbed me of my wren!
  Oh brother you have murdered
  The one that I loved best!
  The trees on yonder mountain
  Are bending to and fro
  They remind me of my diver boy
  Down in the low land, low"