THE TWO The sits at her own front door As as a willow wand And by there come a smith his hammer in his hand Crying bide lady For there's a nowhere you can For the smith will be your love And he will lay pride. Why do you sit lady fair All in robes of red I'll tomorrow at this same time And you in me bed . . . Away away you black smith Would you do me wrong For to think to me maiden head I have kept so long I'd rather I was dead and And me body laid in the Than a lusty, dusty, black smith Me maiden head have . . . So the lady, she up her hand And upon the mold That he'd not have her maiden For all of a pot of gold. But the blacksmith he up his hand And he swore upon the he would have her maiden head For the half of or less . . . So the lady she turned into a And flew up the air Ah, but he became an old cock And they flew pair and . . . So the lady she turned into a As as the night was black Ah, but he became a golden And he clumb upon to her . . . So the lady she into a hare And ran all the plane Ah, but he a greyhound dog And ran her again . . . So the lady she into a fly And fluttered up the air Ah, but he a big, hairy spider And dragged her his lair . . . So the lady she into a sheep Grazing on yon Ah, but he became a big ram And he was upon her. . . . So she turned a full dress ship And she sailed all the sea Ah, but he became a bold And aboard of her he . . . So the lady she turned a cloud away in the air Ah, but he a lightning flash And right into her . . . So she turned into a mulberry A mulberry tree in the Ah, but he came as the morning dew And her where she stood. . . . So the lady she ran the bedroom And she into a bed Ah, but he became a coverlet And he gained her maiden And she woke he took her so And he bad her bide And the lusty smith her love For all of her pride. This song is a derivative of Child Ballad 44, with a by A. L. Lloyd. It was recorded by John & Tony Barrand on Ships in the Forest, Folk Legacy 65 in the key of C. also by Frankie Armstrong on Bird in the Bush and by #44 filename[ DC ===DOCUMENT