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 all that wear gold in your hair
To travel to Carterhaugh, for young Tam Lin is

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

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

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

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

tied her kirtle 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 meek and mild
"Oh, and alas, Janet," he said, "I you go with child"

"Well, if that be so," Janet said, "myself shall bear the
There's not a knight in all your hall 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 love for any you have"

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

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

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

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

So first let pass the horses black and then let the brown
Quickly run to the white steed and 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, will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake
But me tight and fear not, I am your baby's father

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

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

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

up spoke the fairy queen, an angry queen was she,
"Woe her ill-far'd face, an ill death 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"