I always say, I always said, if I were grown and free I'd buy a gown of redest red, as fine as you could see To wear out walking sleak and slow, upon a summers day And there'd be one to see me so and flip the world away And he would be a galant one, wth stars behind his eye And hair like metal in the sun and lips to warm for lies I lways aw us gay and good, high honored in the town Now I am grown to women hood, I have the silly gown