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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