| Lyrics: | Young Hunting
It happened on one evening late,
As the maid was going to
bed,
She heard a sound, a beautiful sound,
That made her heart feel glad.
She
thought it was her brother John,
Returning from the cane;
But who should it be but Lord
Henry,
Just from his wild hunting.
"Get down, get down, Lord Henry,
And stay
all night with me;
For the very best lodging in Mulveren Town,
The best I'll give to
thee."
"I won't get down, I shan't get down,
To stay all night with you;
For
there's a prettier girl in the merry green lands,
That I love much better than
you."
As he leaned o'er his milk-white steed
And kisses gave her three,
She
held up a knife in her right hand
And pierced him heartily.
"O live, O live, Lord
Henry,
Half an hour or more;
For the very best doctors in Mulveren Town,
You'll soon
be in their care."
"O live, O live, how can I live,
How can I live you
see,
When l can feel my own heart's blood,
Come trinkling o'er my knee?"
She
called her waiting maids unto her
To view his body so fair,
Saying, "Of all this finery
you see around here,
The finest you shall wear."
Some took him by his curly
locks,
Some by his hands and feet,
And threw him in the cold, dark well,
Which was
both cold and deep
"Lie there, lie there, Lord Henry,
Till the flesh rots off your
bones!
That prettier girl in the merry green lands,
Shall mourn for your
return."
There was a pretty parrot bird,
Sitting high upon a limb,
Saying, "You
murdered Lord Henry,
And in the well threw him."
"Come down, come down, my pretty
parrot bird,
And sit on my right knee;
Your cage shall be the finest gold,
And the
door of ivory."
"I won't come down, I shan't come down,
To sit on your right
knee;
For you have murdered Lord Henry, And soon you'd murder me"
"I wish I had my
bended bow,
My arrow and my string;
I'd pierce a dart so close your heart,
Those
notes no more you'd sing."
"O if you had your bended bow,
Your arrow and your
string,
I'd take my flight to the merry green lands
And tell what I'd
seen."
Child #68
Printed in Folk-songs of the South
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