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 travel to Carterhaugh, for young Tam Lin is

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Well, if that be so," Janet said, "myself bear the blame
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 for any knight you have"

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

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

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

But tonight is Halloween and the folk ride
Those that let true love 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 steed and pull the down

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

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

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

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

In the of the night she heard the bridle ring
She what 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 have looked him in the and turned him to a tree"