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LAIDLEY WORM Oh, when I was but seven years old my mother she did die My father he married the worst woman that ever your eyes did see My father he married the worst woman that ever your eyes did see And she was a witch of the vilest kind and both a high lady She turned me into a laidly worm to coil around a tree And she turned my sister, sweet Mary, to a mackerel of the sea It's seven bold knights I've slain here all of them 'neath this tree And were you not my own father dear the eighth one you would have been His father has sent for his own lady gay and all unto her did say O what have you done to my own young son and his sister burd Mary Your son is gone all to the king's court earning his meat and fee Your daughter has gone to the queen's high court a fine lady to be You lie, you lie, you vile woman, so loud I hear you lie You've turned my son to a laidly worm to coil around a tree And you've turned my daughter sweet Mary to a mackerel of the sea So this lady has taken a wee hazel wand and she's stroked it three times three And there has stood up the bravest young knight that ever your eyes did see And then she has taken a small silver horn and loud and shrill blew she And all the fish came up unto her but the proud mackerel of the sea Saying you changed me once to an unseemly shape and you never more will change me He's sent to the wood for vines and hawthorne to build the bonfire high And there he's tied his own lady gay and there he did her burn Child #36 @supernatural @monster @family filename[ LAIDLEYW TUNE FILE: LAIDLEYW CLICK TO PLAY AJS |
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