THE TWO The lady sits at her own front As as a willow wand And by there a lusty smith his hammer in his hand Crying bide bide For there's a nowhere you can For the lusty smith be your love And he lay your pride. Why do you sit there fair All in robes of red I'll come tomorrow at this same And you in me bed . . . Away away you coal smith Would you do me this For to think to have me head I have kept so long I'd rather I was and cold And me body in the grave a lusty, dusty, coal black smith Me head should have . . . So the lady, she curled up her And swore the mold That he'd not have her head For all of a pot of gold. But the blacksmith he curled up his And he swore upon the That he would have her head For the half of or less . . . So the she turned into a dove And up into the air Ah, but he an old cock pigeon And flew pair and pair . . . So the she turned into a mare As dark as the was black Ah, but he became a saddle And he clumb to her back . . . So the she turned into a hare And ran all the plane Ah, but he a greyhound dog And ran her down . . . So the lady she turned a fly And fluttered up the air Ah, but he became a big, spider And her into his lair . . . So the lady she turned a sheep Grazing on yon Ah, but he became a big ram And soon he was her. . . . So she into a full dress ship And she sailed all the sea Ah, but he a bold captain And of her went he . . . So the lady she into a cloud Floating in the air Ah, but he became a lightning And zipped right her . . . So she turned into a mulberry A mulberry in the wood Ah, but he forth as the morning dew And her where she stood. . . . So the lady she ran the bedroom And she changed a bed Ah, but he a green coverlet And he gained her head And once she woke he her so And still he bad her And the lusty smith became her For all of her pride. This song is a derivative of Child Ballad 44, a tune by A. L. Lloyd. It was by John Roberts & Tony Barrand on Dark in the Forest, Folk Legacy 65 in the key of C. by Frankie Armstrong on Bird in the Bush and by Carthy #44 filename[ DC ===DOCUMENT