Looking through my iTunes songlist, and realized that I don't know the author to this song. From looking at the context of the CD, it seems to have made, or is making the rounds at Renaissance Fairs. The version I have was sung by the Brobdingnagian Bards, on their CD "A Faire to Remember". The info below comes from their website. Anyone recognize this one?


A Fairy Story
From: A Faire To Remember

words and music by unknown

In days of old in a kingdom bold, there lived a fearsome dragon.
And the King he was in great distress and the countries spirits flagoned.
Until one day there came a knight, he was handsome, bold, and charming.
And he slew the dragon with his sword with a smile that was so disarming.
With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, a smile that was so disarming.

Said the King I wish to know your name, but the knight said do not bother.
For the name of a knight of the realm says he, is the same as any other.
Said the King tonight in my daughter's bed you shall take your leisure.
And she'll reward you for your deed, with a night of exhausting pleasure.
With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, anight of exhausting pleasure.

One daughter she had raven hair, a maiden young and chaste.
And she slept all night in the pale moonlight, naked to the waist.
The other daughter she was fair, the fairest in the town.
And she slept all night in the pale moonlight naked from her small waist down.
With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, naked from her small waist down.

Well the knight he spends many hour behind the castle wall.
But the ending to my story dear, isn't what it seems at all.
For in neither bed of neither maid was he repaid for his glory.
But he slept all night with the King instead for this is a fairy story.
With a hey and a ho and a hey nany no, for this is a Fairy story.

KEY D

verse:
D-A7-D G D A7 D
G D G A7
G D D A7
G-D-G A7 D A7 D

chorus:
G-D-G A7 D A7 D