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Every Night When the Sun Goes In / Marbletown

[ Roud 3611 ; Ballad Index LxA149 ; trad.]

Megson sang Every Night When the Sun Goes In on their 2007 album Smoke of Home. A live recording from Hitchin Folk Club, Hertfordshire, in November 2012, was released on their 2013 album Live.

Snakefarm sang Marbletown Girl in 2011 on their Fledg’ling album My Halo at Half-Light.

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage played the tune of Every Night When the Sun Goes In on their 2018 album Awake, and they sang Marbletown on their 2024 album In the Dark We Grow.

Lyrics

Megson sing Every Night When the Sun Goes In

Every night when the sun goes in,
Every night when the sun goes in,
Every night when the sun goes in
I hang down my head and mournful cry.

True love, don’t weep, true love, don’t mourn,
True love, don’t weep, true love, don’t mourn,
True love, don’t weep, true love, don’t mourn,
I’m goin’ away to Marbletown.

Now I wish to the Lord that the train would come,
I wish to the Lord that the train would come,
I wish to the Lord that the train would come
And take me back where I come from.

I wish to the Lord that my babe was born
A sittin’ on his Daddy’s knee,
And me, poor girl, was dead and gone
With the green green grass growing over me.

True love, don’t weep, true love, don’t mourn,
True love, don’t weep, true love, don’t mourn,
True love, don’t weep, true love, don’t mourn,
I’m goin’ away to Marbletown.

Snakefarm sing Marbletown Girl

True love don’t weep, true love don’t morn,
True love don’t weep, true love don’t morn,
True love don’t weep, true love don’t morn,
I’m going away to Marbletown.

I wish to God this train would come
And take me back where I belong.
I wish to god this train would come
And take me back where I come from.

I wish right now my baby was born
And sitting on his daddy’s knee.
I wish that I was dead and gone
With the tall grass waving over me,
With the tall grass waving over me.

She is walking to the river,
He will follow halfway down.
We have no words to forgive her,
She will find her way to Marbletown.

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage sing Marbletown

Every night when the sun goes in,
Every night when the sun goes in,
Every night when the sun goes in,
I hang down my head and mournful cry.

True love don’t weep, true love don’t mourn,
True love don’t weep, true love don’t mourn,
True love don’t weep or mourn for me,
I’m going away to Marbletown.

I wish I wish the train would come,
I wish I wish the train would come,
I wish I wish the train would come,
To carry me home, where I come from.

I dreamed I dreamed a day would come,
I dreamed I dreamed a day would come,
I dreamed I dreamed a day would come,
When all of my weeping would be done.