Down By The Old Mill Stream

<br>Down by the old (not the new but the old)<br>Mill stream (not the river but the stream),<br>Where I first (not the last but the first)<br>Met you. (Not me but you.)<br>With your eyes (not your ears, but your eyes)<br>Of blue (not green, but blue).<br>Dressed in ging- (not silk but ging-) -ham too. (Not one but two.)<br><br>And it was there (not here, but there),<br>I knew (not old, but new)<br>That you loved (not hate, but loved)<br>Me too. (Not one but two.)<br><br>You were sixteen (not seventeen, but sixteen)<br>My village queen! (Not the king, but the queen).<br>Down by the old (not the new, but the old),<br>Mill stream (not the river, but the stream).