Luyện nghe bài hát Tam Lin

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

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

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

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

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

"And why come you to Carterhaugh command from me? "
"I'll and go", young 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 the blame
There's not a knight in all your hall shall get the name

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the middle of the night she 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 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 looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"