This love ballad was written way back in the 1780's! The Richmond of this song is the market town in North Yorkshire not Surrey! On Richmond Hill there lives a lass more bright than a May-day morn Whose charms all others maids' surpass a rose without a thorn This lass so neat with smiles so sweet has won my right good will I'd crowns resign to call thee mine Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Sweet lass of Richmond Hill I'd crowns resign to call thee mine Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Ye zephyrs gay that fan the air and wonton through the grove Oh whisper to my charming fair I die for her I love This lass so neat with smiles so sweet has won my right good will I'd crowns resign to call thee mine Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Sweet lass of Richmond Hill I'd crowns resign to call thee mine Sweet lass of Richmond Hill How happy will the shepherd be who calls this nymph his own Oh may her choice be fix'd on me mine's fixed on her alone This lass so neat with smiles so sweet has won my right good will I'd crowns resign to call thee mine Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Sweet lass of Richmond Hill I'd crowns resign to call thee mine Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Repeat chorus Sweet lass of Richmond Hill Sweet lass of Richmond Hill I'd crowns resign to call thee mine Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
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