[00:00.00]Tam Lin (Live On 'John Peel's Top Gear', 1969) - Fairport Convention
[00:04.57]Written by：Traditional
[00:09.14]I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair
[00:14.74]To travel to Carterhaugh for young Tam Lin is there
[00:23.56]None that go by Carterhaugh but they leave him a pledge
[00:29.22]Either their mantles of green or else their maidenhead
[00:37.85]Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
[00:43.51]And she's gone to Carterhaugh as fast as go can she
[00:52.10]She'd not pulled a double rose a rose but only two
[00:58.20]When up then came young Tam Lin says lady pull no more
[01:06.69]Why come you to Carterhaugh without command from me
[01:12.68]I'll come and go young Janet said and ask no leave of thee
[01:47.86]Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
[01:53.44]And she's gone to her father as fast as go can she
[02:02.37]Well up then spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild
[02:07.88]Oh and alas Janet he said I think you go with child
[02:16.87]If that be so Janet said myself shall bear the blame
[02:22.76]There's not a knight in all your hall shall get the baby's name
[02:31.43]If my love were an earthly knight as he is an elfin grey
[02:37.13]I'd not change my own true love for any knight you have
[03:09.46]Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
[03:15.36]And she's gone to Carterhaugh as fast as go can she
[03:24.00]Tell to me Tam Lin she said why came you here to dwell
[03:30.00]The queen of faeries caught me when from my horse I fell
[03:38.68]At the end of seven years she pays a tithe to hell
[03:44.56]I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be myself
[03:53.44]But tonight is Hallowe'en and the faerie folk ride
[03:59.13]Those that would their true love win at miles cross they must bide
[04:07.57]First let past the horses black and then let past the brown
[04:13.43]Quickly run to the white steed and pull the rider down
[04:21.91]For I'll ride on the white steed the nearest to the town
[04:27.52]For I was an earthly knight they give me that renown
[04:36.20]They will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake
[04:41.90]But hold me tight and fear not I am your baby's father
[04:50.59]They will turn me in your arms into a lion bold
[04:56.59]But hold me tight and fear not and you will love your child
[05:05.28]They will turn me in your arms into a naked knight
[05:11.20]But cloak me in your mantle and keep me out of sight
[05:51.56]In the middle of the night she heard the bridle ring
[05:57.35]She heeded what he did say and young Tam Lin did win
[06:06.18]Then up spoke the faerie queen an angry queen was she
[06:12.22]Woe betide her ill fought face an ill death may she die
[06:21.04]Had I known Tam Lin she said what this night I did see
[06:27.05]I'd have looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree