Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

The words are different from the original (Child) but this is a very 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 go by Carterhaugh but they leave him a pledge
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 double rose, a but only two
When up came young Tam Lin, says, "Lady, pull no more"

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

Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her
And she's gone to her 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 you go with child"

"Well, if that be so," Janet said, "myself bear the blame
There's not a knight in all your hall shall get the baby's

For if my love were an earthly knight, as he is an 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 gone to as fast 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 a tithe to hell
I so fair and of flesh and feared it be myself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then up spoke the fairy queen, an angry 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"