| Lyrics: | FALSE LADY
"Abide, abide, true love," she said,
"Bide and stay all night,
You
shall have pleasure in my room
With a coal and a candle light, light,
With a coal and a
candle light"
"I won't abide, you false lady,
and bide and stay all night,
For
I have a far better love to enjoy
When I go home, than you, you,
When I go home, than
you"
As he stooped over saddle bow
To kiss her lips so sweet
And with a
penknife in her hand
She wounded him full deep, deep
She wounded him full deep
"Why
woundest me, you false lady
Why woundest me full sore?
There's not a doctor in all
Scotland
Can heal my mortal wound, wound
Can heal my mortal wound"
She awoke
her maids in the morning
Just at the break of day
Saying, "there's a dead man in my bed
chamber
I wish he was away, away
I wish he was away"
Some took him by the
lily-white hands
And others by the feet
They threw him into a very deep well
Full
fifty fathoms deep, deep
Full fifty fathoms deep
"Lie there, lie there, you false
young man
Lie there, lie there, alone
And let the one that you love best
Think you
long a coming home, home
Think you long a coming home"
Oh then upspoke a pretty
little bird
Sitting on a tree
"An ill death may you die, lady
He had no love but
thee, thee
He had no love but thee"
"Come down, come down, you pretty little
bird
Sit upon my knee
For I have a golden cage at home
That I will give to thee,
thee
That I will give to thee"
"I won't come down, you false lady
And sit upon
your knee
For you have slain your own true love
And I'm sure you would slay me,
me
And I'm sure you would slay me"
"I wish I had my bow to bend
My arrow and my
string
I'd shoot you through the very heart
Among the leaves so green, green
Among
the leaves so green"
"Well if you had your bow to bend
Your arrow and your
string
I'd take my wings and away I'd fly
You'd ne'er see me again, again
You'd ne'er
see me again"
@Scots @murder @love @talkbird @animal @ballad @medicine
Child #68 a
version of Young Hunting
recorded by John and Tony on Dark Ships
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