Here's my black dog and my sheep crook
I will give them to you
Here's my bag and my budget
I will bid them adieu
Here's my black dog and my sheep crook
I will leave them behind
Fine floral, fine floral
You've proved all unkind

All to my dear Dinah these words I did say
Tomorrow we'll be married love
Tomorrow is the day
Oh no my dear Willy my age is too young
One day till our wedding
Is one day too soon

Now I'll go into service
If the day ain't too late
To wait on fine lady it is my intent
But when into service a year or two is bound
It's then we'll get married
And both settle down

A little time after a letter was wrote
Just to hear if dear Dinah
had changed her mind
But she wrote that she lived
Such a contrary life
She said that she'd never be
A young shepherd's wife

Here's my black dog and my sheep crook
I will give them to you
Here's my bag and my budget
I will bid them all adieu
Here's my black dog and my sheep crook
I will leave them behind
Fine floral, fine laurel
You've proved all unkind