《Tam Lin》歌词

[00:00:00] Tam Lin - Fairport Convention (公平港口大会)

[00:00:00] Written by：Traditional

[00:00:10] I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair

[00:00:16] To travel to Carter Hall for young Tam Lin is there

[00:00:25] None that go by Carter Hall but they leave him a pledge

[00:00:31] Either their mantles of green or else their maidenhead"

[00:00:40] Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

[00:00:47] And she's gone to Carter Hall as fast as go can she

[00:00:56] She'd not pulled a double rose a rose but only two

[00:01:02] When up there came young Tam Lin says "Lady pull no more"

[00:01:10] "And why come you to Carter Hall without command from me "

[00:01:18] "I'll come and go" young Janet said "and ask no leave of thee"

[00:01:55] Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

[00:02:02] And she's gone to her father as fast as go can she

[00:02:10] Well up then spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild

[00:02:17] "Oh and alas Janet " he said "I think you go with child"

[00:02:25] "Well if that be so " Janet said "myself shall bear the blame

[00:02:32] There's not a knight in all your hall shall get the baby's name

[00:02:41] For if my love were an earthly knight as he is an elfin grey

[00:02:48] I'd not change my own true love for any knight you have"

[00:03:19] Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

[00:03:26] And she's gone to Carter Hall as fast as go can she

[00:03:34] "Oh tell to me Tam Lin " she said "why came you here to dwell "

[00:03:41] "The Queen of Faeries caught me when from my horse I fell

[00:03:50] And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to hell

[00:03:57] I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be myself

[00:04:06] But tonight is Hallowe'en and the faery folk ride

[00:04:12] Those that would their true love win at Miles Cross they must buy

[00:04:21] So first let past the horses black and then let past the brown

[00:04:27] Quickly run to the white steed and pull the rider down

[00:04:36] For I'll ride on the white steed the nearest to the town

[00:04:43] For I was an earthly knight they give me that renown

[00:04:51] Oh they will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake

[00:04:58] But hold me tight and fear not I am your baby's father

[00:05:07] And they will turn me in your arms into a lion bold

[00:05:14] But hold me tight and fear not and you will love your child

[00:05:23] And they will turn me in your arms into a naked knight

[00:05:30] But cloak me in your mantle and keep me out of sight"

[00:06:07] In the middle of the night she heard the bridle ring

[00:06:14] She heeded what he did say and young Tam Lin did win

[00:06:22] Then up spoke the Faery Queen an angry queen was she

[00:06:29] Woe betide her ill-fought face an ill death may she die

[00:06:37] "Oh had I known Tam Lin " she said "what this knight I did see

[00:06:45] I have looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree