Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

The words are different from the original (Child) version but this is a 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 Carterhaugh but they him a pledge
their mantles of green or else their maidenhead"

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

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

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

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

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

"Well, if that be so," 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 change my own true love for any you have"

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 into a bold
But hold me and fear not and you will love your child

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

In the middle of the she heard 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 face, an ill death 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"