Black Jack David is the name that I bear been alone in   the forest for a long time   But the time is coming when   a lady I'll find I will love her   Hold her singing through   the green green trees      And the skin on my hands is like the leather I ride   and my face is hard from the cold wind   But my heart so warm with   the song that I sing   Charm a fair lady   Singing through the green green trees      Fair Eloise rode out that day   From her fine fine home in the morning   In the flush of the dawn came a sound to her ear   Drifting and floating   Singing through the green green trees      Now fifteen summers was   all that she'd seen   And her skin was as soft as the velvet   But she's forsaken her fine fine home   And Black Jack David is   Singing through the green green trees      Last night she slept on a fine feather bed   Far far from Black jack David   But tonight she will sleep on the cold cold ground   And love him and hold him   Singing through the green green trees      Saddle me up my fine gray mare   Cried the lord of the house next morning   For the servants tell me   my daughter's gone   With Black Jack David   Singing through the green green trees      And he rode all day and he rode all night   But he never did find his daughter   But he heard from afar   come adrift on the wind   Two voices laughing   Singing through the green green trees      Oh Black Jack David is   the name that I bear   Been alone in the forest for a long time   But now I have found me a lady so fair   I will love her and hold her   Singing through the green green trees