The words are different from the original (Child) version but this is a very close of the song as performed by Sandy Denny.
"I forbid you maidens all that gold in your hair To to Carterhaugh, for young Tam Lin is there
None that go by but they leave him a pledge Either their mantles of green or else maidenhead"
Janet tied her kirtle a bit above her knee And gone to Carterhaugh 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 Carterhaugh without command me? " "I'll come and go", young Janet said, "and ask no of thee"
tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee And she's to her father as fast as go can she
Well, up spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild "Oh, and alas, Janet," he said, "I think you go child"
"Well, if that be so," Janet said, "myself bear the blame not a knight in all your hall shall get the baby's name
For if my love were an earthly knight, as he is an elfin I'd not my own true love for any knight you have"
So Janet tied her kirtle a bit above her knee And she's to Carterhaugh as fast as go can she
"h, to me, Tam Lin," he said, "hy came you here to dwell? " "The queen of fairies me when from my horse I fell
And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to I so fair and full of and feared it be myself
But tonight is and the fairy folk ride Those that would let love win at Mile's Cross they must bide
So let pass the horses black and then let pass the brown Quickly run to the white steed and pull the down
For I'll ride on the white steed, the to the town For I was an earthly knight, they give me that
Oh, they will turn me in your arms to a newt or a But hold me tight and fear not, I am baby's father
And they will turn me in your arms into a bold But hold me tight and fear not and you will love child
And they will turn me in arms into a naked knight But cloak me in your and keep me out of sight"
In the middle of the night she heard the ring She heeded he did say and young Tam Lin did win
Then up spoke the fairy queen, an angry was she, "Woe her ill-far'd face, an ill death may she die"
"Oh, had I known, Tam Lin,'' she said, "what night I did see I'd looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"