Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

The words are different from the original (Child) version but this is a very close approximation of the song as performed by Denny.

"I you maidens all that wear gold in your hair
To travel to Carterhaugh, for young Tam Lin is

None that go by but they leave him a pledge
Either their mantles of or else their maidenhead"

Janet her kirtle green a bit above her knee
And she's gone to as fast as go can she

not pulled a double rose, a rose but only two
When up then came young Tam Lin, says, "Lady, no more"

"And why come you to without command from me? "
"I'll come and go", Janet said, "and ask no leave of thee"

Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her
And she's gone to her as fast as go can she

Well, up then spoke her father dear and he meek and mild
"Oh, and alas, Janet," he said, "I you go with child"

"Well, if be so," Janet said, "myself shall bear the blame
There's not a knight in all hall shall get the baby's name

For if my love were an knight, as he is an elfin grey
I'd not my own true love for any knight you have"

So tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
And she's gone to as fast as go can she

"h, tell to me, Tam Lin," he said, "hy came you to dwell? "
"The queen of fairies caught me when from my horse I

And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to
I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be

But is Halloween and the fairy folk ride
Those that would let true love win at Mile's Cross they must

So first let the horses black and then let pass the brown
run to the white steed and pull the rider down

For I'll on the white steed, the nearest to the town
For I was an knight, they give me that renown

Oh, they will turn me in your to a newt or a snake
But me tight and fear not, I am your baby's father

And they turn me in your arms into a lion bold
But me tight and fear not and you will love your child

And they turn me in your arms into a naked knight
But cloak me in mantle and keep me out of sight"

In the of the night she heard the bridle ring
She what he did say and young Tam Lin did win

Then up spoke the fairy queen, an angry was she,
"Woe betide her face, an ill death may she die"

"Oh, had I known, Tam Lin,'' she said, "what this I did see
I'd have looked him in the eyes and him to a tree"