Two Sisters (Bonnie Broom)



There was a lady lived in York

Lay the bend tae the bonnie broom

Two daughters were the babes she bore

Fa la la la la la la la la la



As one grew bright as is the sun, Lay...

So darker grew the elder one, fa la...



A knight came riding to the lady's door

he traveled far to be the wooer



He courted one with gloves and rings

But he loved the younger above all things



Sister will you go with me

To watch the ships all on the sea



She took her sister by the hand

And led her down to the North Sea strand



Long they stood on the windy shore

The Darker threw her sister o'er



Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam

Crying, Sister, reach to me your hand



O Sister, Sister, let me live

And all that's mine I'll surely give



It's your own true love that I'll have and more

But thou shalt never come ashore



And there she floated like a swan

The salt sea bore her body on



Some minstrels walked along the strand

And saw the maiden float close to them

They made a harp of her breastbone

Whose sound would melt a heart of stone



They took strands of her yellow hair

And with it strung their harp so fair



They went into her father's hall

To play the harp before them all



But as they laid it on a stone

The harp began to play alone



The first string sang a doleful sound

The brighter, younger sister drownded



The second string did then reply

In terror sits the black-haired bride



The first string sang beneath the bow

And surely now the tears would flow

Child #10

sung by Frankie Armstrong on Lovely on Water

and by the Golden Ring

@ballad @love @murder @family

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