歌曲名 Tam Lin (Bbc Session Top Gear 27+9+69) 歌手名 Fairport Convention

作词：Traditional

作曲：Traditional

I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair

To travel to Carter Hall for young Tam Lin is there

None that go by Carter Hall but they leave him a pledge

Either their mantles of green or else their maidenhead

Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

And she gone to Carter Hall as fast as go can she

She not pulled a double rose a rose but only two

When up there came young Tam Lin says Lady pull no more

And why come you to Carter Hall without command from me

I come and go young Janet said and ask no leave of thee

Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

And she gone to her father as fast as go can she

Well up then spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild

Oh and alas Janet he said I think you go with child

Well if that be so Janet said myself shall bear the blame

There not a knight in all your hall shall get the baby name

If my love were an earthly knight as he is an elfin grey

I not change my own true love for any knight you have

Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

And she gone to Carter Hall as fast as go can she

Tell to me Tam Lin she said how came you here to dwell

The Queen of Faeries caught me when from my horse I fell

And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to hell

I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be myself

But tonight is Hallowe and the faery folk ride

Those that would their true love win at Miles Cross they must buy

So first let past the horses black and then let past the brown

Quickly run to the white steed and pull the rider down

For I ride on the white steed the nearest to the town

For I was an earthly knight they give me that renown

They will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake

But hold me tight and tight fear not I am your baby father

And they will turn me in your arms into a lion bold

But hold me tight and tight

Fear not and you will love your child

And they will turn me in your arms into a naked knight

But cloak me in your mantle and keep me out of sight

In the middle of the night she heard the bridle ring

She heeded what he did say and young Tam Lin did win

Up then spoke the Faery Queen an angry queen was she

Woe betide her ill face an ill death may she die

Had I known Tam Lin she said what this knight I did see

I have looked you in the eyes and turned you to a tree