[Verse 1]
A wager with you, my pretty fair maid
Five hundred pounds to your ten
A maid you will go to the merry green broom
A maid you'll no longer return, oh

[Verse 2]
A wager, a wager with you, kind sir
Five hundred pounds to my ten
A maid I will go to the merry green broom
A maid I will boldly return

[Verse 3]
The maiden, she sat in her bower alone
She's in torment and strife
If I don't go to the broom this night
My love, he won't make me his wife, oh

[Verse 4]
Up and she's gone on her good white steed
Away for her young man to meet
She found him there and all fast asleep
With a blood red rose at his feet

[Verse 5]
She kissed him twice on cheek and on chin
Then over his body did lean
There she did lay five rings on his chest
Just so he'd know she had been, oh
[Verse 6]
Off through the woods, this maiden did go
Just when her love did arise
There he did see five rings on his chest
On his face was naught but surprise

[Verse 1]
A wager with you, my pretty fair maid
Five hundred pounds to your ten
A maid you will go to the merry green broom
A maid you'll no longer return, oh

[Verse 2]
A wager, a wager with you, kind sir
Five hundred pounds to my ten
A maid I will go to the merry green broom
A maid I will boldly return