Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

The words are from the original (Child) version but this is a very close approximation of the song as performed by Sandy Denny.

"I you maidens all that wear gold in your hair
To to Carterhaugh, for young Tam Lin is there

None that go by Carterhaugh but they him a pledge
Either their mantles of green or 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 come you to Carterhaugh without 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 spoke meek and
"Oh, and alas, Janet," he said, "I think you go child"

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

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

So Janet tied her kirtle 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 years she pays a tithe to
I so fair and full of flesh and it be myself

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

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

For I'll ride on the white steed, the nearest to the
For I was an earthly knight, they me that renown

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

And they will turn me in your into a lion bold
But me tight 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 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 face, an ill death may she die"

"Oh, had I known, Tam Lin,'' she said, "what night I did see
I'd have looked him in the and turned him to a tree"