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Lyrics for Clerk Saunders by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Clerk Saunders | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 316 | | | | Lyrics: | CLERK SAUNDERS
Clerk Saunders and May Margaret
Were walking on yon garden
green
And sad and heavy was the love I wot
That fell their twa between
"A bed,
a bed," Clerk Saunders said
"A bed for you and me"
"Fie no, fie no," quoth May
Margaret
"Till ainse we mairrit be"
"Ye'll tak' a napkin in your hands
And bind
up baith your bonnie een
Then you may swear and save your oath
You saw me not since late
yestereen
"Tak' yer ma sword intae baith your hands
And slowly, slowly lift the
pin
Then you may swear and save your oath
Ye ne'er let Clerk Saunders in"
It
fell aboot the midnight hour
When they asleep in bed were laid
That in there came her
seven brothers
Wi' torches burning red
And up and spak' the fifth o' them
"It
were a shame true love tae twine"
And up and spak' the sixth o' them
"It were a sin tae
slay a sleeping man"
But up and gat the seventh o' them
And ne'er a word spak'
he
But he has striped his bright brown brand
Down through Clerk Saunders's fair
body
And they lay still and sleepit sound
Until the sun began tae sheen
She
looked atween her and the wa'
And dull and drowsy were his een
Then in there cam'
her faither dear
And said "Let a' your mournin' be
I'll carry the dead corpse tae the
clay
And I'll come back and comfort thee"
The clinkin' bell gaed through the
toon
Tae carry the dead corpse tae the clay
And Clerk Saunders stood at May Margaret's
window
I wot an hour before the day
"Is there any room at your head,
Saunders?
Or any room at your feet?
Or any room at your side Saunders?
Whaur fain,
fain I would sleep?"
"No, there's nae room at my head, Margaret
And nae room at my
feet
My bed it is full lowly now
Among the hungry worms I sleep
And fair
Margaret and rare Margaret
And Margaret of veritie
Gin ere ye love anither
man
Ne'er love him as ye did me"
Then up and crew the milk-white
cock
And up and crew the grey
Her lover vanished in the air
And she went weepin'
away
Child #69
@ballad @courtship @murder @family @ghost
recorded by Jean
Redpath on Lowlands
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