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Lyrics for Thomas The Rhymer by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Thomas The Rhymer | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 161 | | | | Lyrics: | THOMAS THE RHYMER
True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank
A fairy he spied with his
e'e
And there he saw a lady bright
Come riding down by the Eildon Tree
Her
skirt was of the grass green silk
Her mantle of the velvet fine
At each tett of her
horse's mane
Hung fifty silver bells and nine
True Thomas, he pulled off his
cap
And bowed low down to his knee
All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven
For thy peer
on earth I never did see
Oh no, oh no, Thomas, she said
That name does not belong to
me
I am but the Queen of fair Elfland
That am hither come to visit thee
Harp
and carp, Thomas, she said
Harp and carp along with me
And if you dare to kiss my
lips
Sure of your body I will be
Betide me well, betide me woe
That weird shall
never daunton me
Syne he has kissed her rosy lips
All underneath the Eildon
Tree
Now, ye maun go with me, she said
True Thomas, ye maun go with me
And ye
maun serve me seven years
Though weal and woe, as may chance to be
She mounted on
her milk white steed
She's taken True Thomas up behind
And aye whenever her bridle
rang
The steed flew swifter than the wind
Oh they rode on, and further on
The
steed gaed swifter than the wind
Until they reached a desert wide
And living land was left
behind
Light down, light down now, true Thomas
And lean you head upon my
knee
Abide and rest a little space
And I will show you ferlies three
Oh, see
you not yon narrow road
So thick beset with thorn and briars
That is the path of
righteousness
Though after it but few enquire
And see you not that broad, broad
road
That lies across that lily leven
That is the path of wickedness
Though some call
it the road to Heaven
And see you not that bonnie road
That winds about the fernie
brae
That is the road to fair Elfland
Where thou and I this night maun gae
But
Thomas, you must hold your tongue
Whatever you may hear or see
For if you speak word in
Elfin land
You'll ne'er get back to you ain country
Then they came on to a garden
green
And she pulled an apple frae a tree
Take this for thy wages, True Thomas
It
will give the tongue that can never lie
My tongue is my own, True Thomas said
A
goodly gift you would give to me
I neither dought to buy or sell
At fair or tryst where I
may be
I dought neither speak to prince nor peer
Nor ask of grace from fair
lady
Now hold thy peace, the lady said
For as I say, so it must be
He has
gotten a coat of the even cloth
And a pair of shoes of velvet green
And till seven years
were gone and past
True Thomas on earth was never seen
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Collected by Child and Scott
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