A popular song from 1881
Words and music by Theo. Marzials
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- “Can’t you stay one tiny moment?”
Said the miller to the maid
As she went along the shallows
In the twinkling alder shade
“For I’ve so much to tell you
And you always say me nay
And with such a pretty bonnet, oh
You take my breath away
For hey dear, you are so pretty”
She turned and answered low
“That’s just what cousin Dobbin says
But brother Bob says “no”
If you’ve nothing more to tell me then
Oh! miller, let me go
For my mother’s making griddle cake
And waits for me, I know” - “Oh! but that’s not it at all,” he said
The miller, to the maid
And he tried to see her pretty face
Beneath her bonnet shade
“For oh! I’m so unhappy
From that twenty-third of May
When you came here for my wheaten best
And stole my heart away
For I love you, oh! so dearly”
She turned and tried to go
“That’s just what cousin Dobbin says
To every girl I know
If you’ve nothing more to tell me then
Oh! miller, let me go
For my mother’s making griddle cake
And waits for me, I know” - “Brother Bob and cousin Dobbin!”
Said the miller to the maid
And he saw her pretty face at last
Beneath her bonnet shade
“I’m dying all for love of you
And what am I to do
If I cannot get the marriage lines
And go to church with you
And it’s now you know it all,” he said
“So bless you dear, and go”
“Oh! miller, miller, wait a bit
I need not hurry so
If you’ve something more to tell me
You can tell me as we go”
And he’d nothing left to tell her
Yet he told it her I know
For one never tires of telling
“Oh! sweetheart, I love you so!”