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 but they leave him a pledge
Either mantles of green or else their maidenhead"

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

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

"And why come you to Carterhaugh command from me? "
"I'll and go", young Janet said, "and ask no leave of thee"

Janet tied her green a bit above her knee
And gone to her father as fast as go can she

Well, up then 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 shall bear the
There's not a knight in all your shall get the baby's name

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

So tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
And gone 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 caught me from my horse I fell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the middle of the night she the bridle ring
She heeded 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 this I did see
I'd looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"