I'm looking for the lyrics to a song by the group "Touchwood" (Cristina Crawley and Kerstein Blodig). The name of the song is "Sovay" and it's on the album "Women of the World - Celtic II", Track 2. Can anyone help?

Sovay Lyrics

I can't vouch if this is the version Touchwood sings, but here's lyrics that I've found:

THE MALE FEMALE HIGHWAYMAN

It's of a female highwayman all on a summer's day
She said a frolic I will have and dress in man's array
And I'll ride out along the lea
And hope my true love I shall see
And there I'll test his constancy
With a female highwayman.

cho: With a female highwayman
With a female highwayman
--last two lines of verse--

And so this female highwayman has mounted on a horse
And she's rode out and there she's met her true love, of course
"Stand and deliver sir", she said,
"Or if you don't I'll shoot you dead
Or would you rather come to bed
With a female highwayman?"

So they jogged on together till they came unto an inn
And there they called an ostler and boldly they walked in
They called for liquors of the best,
They went upstairs and got undressed
What happened next can ne'er be guessed
To the female highwayman

For she's pulled off her breeches and likewise her jacket red
She's taken off her velvet cape and lay upon the bed.
Her true love in amazement stands
It seems the end of all his plans
For she has proved to be a man
This female highwayman.

Her true love stands like one amazed and at her did stare
But when the joke he did find out he loudly did declare:
"Fear not my love, it's time to smile"
He threw his clothes down in a pile
He was a female all the while
For the female highwayman

Here are the lyrics for the WOTW Sovay (IMG:/forum/style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

Sovay Sovay all on a day
She dressed herself in man's array
With a brace of pistols all by her side
To meet her true love, to meet her true love, she ride

She was riding over the plain
She met her true love ring on his hand
she said stop
``Stand and deliver, come sir,'' she said
``And If you do not, and if you do not, your life i'll have''
``And If you do not, and if you do not, your life i'll have''

He honored her his gold in store
And yet she craved for one thing more
``That diamond, that diamond ring that I see you wear
Oh hand it over, oh hand it over, and your life I'll spare''

``That diamond ring I wouldn't part
For it's a token from my sweetheart
You shoot and be damned you rogue" said he
"And you'll be hanged you will be hanged for murdering me''

Next morning in her garden green
Young Sovay and her true love were seen
He spied his watch hanging from her cloak
Which made him blush less, which made him blush less like any rose
Which made him blush less, which made him blush less like any rose

``Why do you blush you silly thing
I thought to have had your diamond ring
Twas I who robbed you all on the plain
So here's your gold, so here's your gold and your watch again''
So here's your gold, so here's your gold and your watch again''

``I only did it for to know
If you would be a man or no
If you had given me that ring she said
I'd have pulled the trigger I'd pulled the trigger and shot you dead''