Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And they will turn me in your arms 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 middle of the night she heard the bridle
She what he did say and young Tam Lin did win

Then up the fairy queen, an angry queen was she,
"Woe betide her ill-far'd face, an ill may she die"

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