Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

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

"I forbid you maidens all that 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 else maidenhead"

Janet tied her kirtle 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 young Tam Lin, says, "Lady, pull no more"

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

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

Well, up then spoke her father dear and he spoke 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 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 love for any knight you have"

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

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

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

But tonight is 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 let pass the brown
Quickly run to the white and pull the rider down

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

Oh, they will turn me in your 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 will your child

And they will turn me in your arms into a knight
But cloak me in your and keep 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 fairy queen, an angry 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 have looked him in the and turned him to a tree"