THE TWO The lady at her own front door As straight as a willow And by come a lusty smith With his hammer in his Crying bide bide For there's a you can hide For the lusty will be your love And he lay your pride. Why do you sit lady fair All in your of red come tomorrow at this same time And you in me bed . . . Away away you coal black you do me this wrong For to think to have me maiden I have kept so long I'd I was dead and cold And me laid in the grave a lusty, dusty, coal black smith Me maiden head should . . . So the lady, she up her hand And swore upon the he'd not have her maiden head For all of a pot of gold. But the he curled up his hand And he swore the mast That he would have her head For the half of or less . . . So the lady she turned a dove And up into the air Ah, but he an old cock pigeon And they flew and pair . . . So the lady she turned into a As as the night was black Ah, but he became a saddle 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 turned a fly And fluttered up the air Ah, but he became a big, spider And dragged her his lair . . . So the she turned into a sheep on yon common Ah, but he a big horny ram And he was upon her. . . . So she turned into a dress ship And she sailed all the sea Ah, but he became a captain And of her went he . . . So the lady she turned a cloud away in the air Ah, but he became a lightning And zipped into her . . . So she into a mulberry tree A mulberry tree in the Ah, but he came forth as the dew And sprinkled her she stood. . . . So the lady she ran the bedroom And she changed a bed Ah, but he a green 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 Ballad 44, with a tune by A. L. Lloyd. It was recorded by John Roberts & Tony on Dark Ships in the Forest, Folk 65 in the key of C. also by Armstrong on Bird in the Bush and by Carthy #44 filename[ DC ===DOCUMENT