Tam Lin

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O I forbid you maidens all
That wear gold in your hair
To come or go by Carterhaugh
For young Tam Lin is there

There's none that goes by Carterhaugh
That they leave him a toll
Either their rings or verdant cloaks
For he won't leave them whole

Jenny has tucked up her skirt
A little above knee-high
And Jenny has pulled up her hair
A cap it's hidden inside
And she's away to Carterhaugh
As fast as she can ride

When she came to Carterhaugh
Tam Lin was at the well
And there she found his steed standing
But away was himself

She had not pulled a double rose
A double rose she tore
Till up then started young Tam Lin
Says, "Lady, thou pulls no more

Why pull's thou the rose, Jenny,
And why's thou break the wand?
And why comes thou to Carterhaugh
Withouten my command"?

"Carterhaugh it is my own
My father gave it to me
I'll come and go by Carterhaugh
And ask no leave of thee"

Jenny has tucked up her skirt
A little above knee-high
And Jenny has pulled up her hair
A cap it's hidden inside
And  she's away  to Carterhaugh
As fast as she  can ride

Four and twenty ladies fair
Were playing at the ball
And out then came fair Jenny
The flower among them all

Four and twenty ladies fair
Adorned in jewels and glass
And out then came the fairy Jenny
As green as summer grass.

Out then spoke an old grey knight
Lay o're the castle wall
And says, "Alas, Fairy Jenny for thee
But we'll be blamed for all"

"Hold your tongue you old-faced knight
Some ill death fall on thee
Father my babes on whom I will
But you'll father none on me"

Out then spoke her father dear
And he spoke meek and mild
And says, "alas, sweet Jenny
I think thou art with child"

"If that I am with child, father
Myself, I'll bear the blame
There's ne'er a lord about your hall
Shall get the baby's name

"If my love were an earthly knight
As he's an elfin grey
I would not give my own true love
For any lord here today"

"The steed that my true-love rides on
Is lighter than the wind
With silver shoes
And burning gold behind"

Jenny has tucked up her skirt
A little above knee-high
And Jenny has pulled up her hair
A cap it's hidden inside
And she's away to Carterhaugh
As fast as she can ride

When she came to Carterhaugh
Tam Lin was at the well
And there she found his steed standing
But away was himself

She had not pulled a double rose
A double rose she tore
Till up then started young Tam Lin
Says, "Lady, thou pulls no more"

"Why thou pulls the rose, Jenny?
Among the grove so green
For to kill the bonny babe
That we'll have us between?"

"O tell me, tell me, young Tam Lin
For Christ that died on the tree
If ever you were in holy church
Or Christendom did see?"

"Roxburgh he was my grandfather
Took me with him to bide
And once it fell upon a day
That woe did me betide

And once it fell upon a day
As round the cold wind swelled
When we were from the hunting come
That from my horse I fell
The Queen the of Fairies caught me
In yon green hill do dwell

And pleasant is the fairy land
But an eerie tale
Ay, at the end of seven years
We pay a tithe to Hell
I am so fair and full of flesh
I fear it be myself

But the night is Halloween
The morn is Hallowday
Then win me, win me, if you can
And spirit me away

At the dark and midnight hour
The fairy folk will ride
And if you hope to rescue me
At Miles Cross you must bide"

"But how shall I see you, dear Tam Lin
Oh how my true-love know
Among so many armored knights
The like I never saw"?

"Oh first let pass the black pony
Then let pass the brown
Quickly run to the milk-white steed
Pull that rider down

My right hand will be gloved my lady
And the left will be bare
I will push my helmet back
And you will see my hair
And when my horse comes round
You must pull me down

And then you must hold me tight, my lady
And do not be afraid
They'll turn me into an asp and adder
But my soul will remain

They'll turn me into a bear's sharp claws
And then a lion's roar
But hold me fast and fear me not
And you shall have me forever more

They'll turn me into an eagle don't be scared
They'll turn me into a wolf but I won't bite you
Next a burning coal you'll have to carry
And then I will become a man, and we can marry"

Gloomy, gloomy was the night
Upon that Hallowday
As Jenny in her verdant cloak
To Miles Cross made her way

At the dark and midnight hour
She heard the bridles ring
She was glad to hear that sound
And her heart began to sing

First she let the black pass by
And then she let the brown
But quickly she ran to the milk-white steed
And pulled the rider down

So well she did what he had said
And young Tam Lin did win
She covered him with her verdant cloak
And kissed the man within

Out then spoke the Queen of Fairies
An angry curse she lay
Upon fair Jenny of the woods
On New Year's Hallowday

"Seven years Tam Lin has dwelled
With us beneath the hill
By seven years his time has come
To pay a tithe to Hell

Shame betide her ill-fared face
An ill death fall on she
Whose taken away the bonniest knight
In all my company

But had I known, Tam Lin
What now this night I see
I would have taken out your eyes
And put in two eyes of tree

Jenny has tucked up her skirt
A little above knee-high
And Jenny has pulled up her hair
A cap it's hidden inside
And she's away to Carterhaugh
As fast as she can ride

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