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

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

Janet tied her green a bit above 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 came young Tam Lin, says, "Lady, 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 her kirtle green a bit above her knee
And gone to her father 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 be so," Janet said, "myself shall bear the blame
There's not a knight in all hall shall get the baby's name

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

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

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

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 ride
Those that would let true love win at Mile's Cross they bide

So first let pass the horses and then let pass 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 me in your arms to a newt or a snake
But hold me tight and fear not, I am baby's father

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

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

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

Then up spoke the 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 him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"