I always saw, I always said If I were grown and free I'd have a gown of reddest red As fine as you could see To wear out walking, sleek and slow Upon a Summer day And there'd be one to see me so And flip the world away And he would be a gallant one With stars behind his eyes And hair like metal in the sun And lips too warm for lies I always saw us, gay and good High honored in the town Now I am grown to womanhood I have the silly gown