Deep in your Southern Counties

there is a lady I know will be mine

She was taken from me by her father

When he discovers our secret sign

I'd see he at Kirk on a Sunday

I'd be sat there in the row behind

At some point throughout the service

She would let me know she was glad to be mine

She would give me the secret sign

She would give me the secret sign

And they say it will take five days to reach her

But I'm swearing I'll be there in three

And from under the nose of her father

I'll steal her on home with me

I'll steal her on home with me

I've only once before been out of the county

That one trip to Edinburgh toon

And that was for the public dispatching

O' that bastard Anderson Brown

And they say it will take five days to reach her

But I'm swearing I'll be there in three

And from under the nose of her father

I'll steal her on home with me

I'll steal her on home with me

She knows that it will not be easy

And that a new home will have to be found

And there's little hope of employment

Once her father puts the word around

We may well end up on the islands

if we can beg or borrow some land

Where we will be judged not by our breeding

But with what we can build with our hands

And they say it will take five days to reach her

But I'm swearing I'll be there in three

And from under the nose of her father

I'll steal her on home with me

I'll steal her on home with me