Tam Lin
Dorain
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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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