Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

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

"I forbid you maidens all wear gold in your hair
To travel to Carterhaugh, for 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 green a bit above her
And gone to Carterhaugh as fast as go can she

She'd not pulled a rose, a rose 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", young Janet said, "and ask no of thee"

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

Well, up then spoke her father dear and he spoke 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 hall shall get the baby's name

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

So Janet tied her 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 came you here to "
"The queen of fairies caught me from my horse I fell

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

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

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

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

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

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

And they will turn me in your arms into a naked
But cloak me in your 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 spoke the fairy queen, an 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 have him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"