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

Janet's tied her kirtle green
A bit above her knee
And she's away to Carterhaugh
As fast as go can she

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

When she began to pull the flowers
She pu'd both red and green
When then appeared him, young Tam Lin
Says Lady, let alone

Oh why you pull the rose, the rose
Or why climb you the tree
Or why come you to Carterhaugh
Without the leave of me

O I will pull the flowers she said
Or I will break the tree
I'll come and go by Carterhaugh
And ask no leave at thee

He took her by the milk-white hand
And by the grass green sleeve
And he has laid this lady down
Among the roses green

Out then spoke her father
And he spoke meek and mild
Oh, alas, my Janet
I think you go with child

Father, if I go with child
Myself must bear the blame
There's not a lad in all your hall
Shall give the baby's name

If my lord were an earthly knight
As he's an elfish grey
I wouldn't give my own true love
For any lord ye hae

Janet's tied her kirtle green
A bit above her knee
And she's away to Carterhaugh
As fast as go can she

Oh tell to me, Tam Lin, she says
Why came you here to dwell
The queen of fairies caught me
When from my horse I fell

And pleasant is the fairy land, but
An eerie tale to tell
Ay at the end of seven years
We pay a tine to hell

Ay at the end of seven years
We pay a tine to hell
As I am made of flesh and blood
I'm fear it be mysel

The night it is good Halloween
And the fairie folk do ride
And they that would their true-love win
At Miles Cross they must bide

For some ride on the black, my love, and
Some, they'll ride on the brown
But I'll ride on a milk-white steed
Pull you his rider down

First they'll turn me in your arms
To an adder and a snake
But hold me fast, and fear me not
I am your earthly mate

Next they'll turn me to a bear
And then a lion wild
But hold me fast, and fear me not
And you shall love your child

And then I'll grow all in your arms
Like iron in hot fire
But hold me fast, and fear me not
You'll have your desire

Janet's tied her kirtle green
A bit above her knee
And she's away to Carterhaugh
As fast as go can she

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

At first he changed all in her arms
To an adder and a snake
She held him fast, and feared him not
He was her earthly mate

Then he changed all in her arms
Into a lion wild
She held him fast, and feared him not
The father of her child

And then he changed all in her arms
Like iron in hot fire
She held him fast, and feared him not
He was her heart's desire

And then he changed all in her arms
Into a naked man,
She cast her kirtle green o'er him
To keep him from the rain

Out then spoke the fairy queen
And an angry queen was she
Woe betide her ill-far'd face
An ill death may she die

O had I known at early morn
Tam Lin would from me gone
I'd taken out his heart of flesh
Put in a heart of stone

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