[As sung by A. L. Lloyd. Interlaced refrain given for 1st verse only. Compare with "The Three Ravens".]

Down in yon forest there stands a hall
The bells of paradise, I heard them ring;
It's covered all over with purple so tall,
An I love my Lord Jesus above anything.

And in that hall there stands a lad
It's covered all over with scarlet so red.

And by that bedside there lies a stone,
The sweet Virgin Mary a-kneeling thereon.

An on that bed there lies a knight,
Whose wounds they do bleed by day and by night.

And under that bed there runs a flood,
The one half runs water, the other runs blood.

At the bed's foot there lies a hound,
A-licking the blood as it daily runs down.

At the the bed's head there grows a thorn,
Which ever has blossomed since Jesus was born.