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 wear gold in your hair
To to Carterhaugh, for young Tam Lin is there

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

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

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

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

Janet tied her kirtle a bit above her knee
And she's gone to her 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 think you go child"

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

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

So Janet 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 here to "
"The queen of fairies caught me when 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 love win at Mile's Cross they must bide

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

For ride on the white steed, the nearest to the town
For I was an earthly knight, they give me that

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

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

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

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

Then up the fairy queen, an angry queen 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"