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Artist:	Denny Sandy
Song Title:	Tam Lin
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The words are different from the original (child) version but this is a very close approximation of the song as performed by sandy denny.

i forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair

To travel to carterhaugh, for young tam lin is there

None that go by carterhaugh 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 shes gone to carterhaugh as fast as go can she

Shed not pulled a double rose, a rose but only two

When up then came young tam lin, says,lady, pull no more

and why come you to carterhaugh without command from me?

ill come and go, young janet said, and ask no leave of thee

Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

And shes 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

Theres not a knight in all your hall shall get the babys name

For if my love were an earthly knight, as he is an elfin grey

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

So janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee

And shes gone to carterhaugh as fast as go can she

``oh, tell to me, tam lin, she said, why came you here to dwell?

``the queen of fairies 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 fear it be myself

But tonight is halloween and the fairy folk ride

Those that would let true love win at miles cross they must bide

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

Quickly run to the white steed and pull the rider down

For Ill ride on the white steed, the nearest to the town

For I was an earthly knight, they give me that renown

Oh, they will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake

But hold me tight and fear not, I am your babys father

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

But hold me tight and 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

Then up spoke the fairy queen, an angry queen was she

Woe betide her ill-fard face, an ill death may she die

oh, had I known, tam lin, she said, what this night I did see

Id have looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree

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