Hi there
I know this thread is a long time ago now, but last year I took the five incomplete stories I found in Bronson and made this. The tune is adapted from one of the american ones in the book.

YOUNG HUNTING

Last night, last night, Lady Margaret awoke
to the sweet call of a horn
Indeed it was her Sir Henry
returned from his wild hunting

Come in, come in, loving Henry she said
Come and stay hours one, two, three,
For it has been most three long years
Since I spent one hour with thee.

I can't come in, and I won't come in
and stay hours one, two, three
For there's a little girl in the old east land
That I love much better than thee.

He bended over her pillow side
to take kisses one, two, three
She held in her hand a little white knife
and she pierced him oh so deep

She clasped one hand to his yellow hair
and pulled him to his feet
and she plunged him down in the well water
which was both cold and deep

Help me get out, my own true love
won't you help me out cried he
for there's not a girl in the whole east land
that I love any better than thee

Lie there, lie there, loving Henry she said
til the flesh rots from your bones
And there's a little girl in the old east lands
Will long for your return.

Fly down fly down, pretty parrot bird,
and take corn one, two, three
I'll make you a cage of yellow beaten gold
and doors of ivory

I can't fly down and I won't fly down
and take corn one, two, three
For you have murdered your own true love
and I fear you would murder me.

O parrot if I had a tight drawn bow
and ar-rows one, two, three
I'd let them slip at your cold red breast
as you sit on yonder tree.

O Lady if you had a tight drawn bow
and ar -rows one, two, three
I'd take to flight and fly away
and sing from another tree.

Child #68
In same series is; False Lady/Lord of Scotland
Also parrot theme happens in another ballad series Outlandish Knight/Lady Isobel and the elf knight/False Sir John (versions of Child #4)

Jenny Fitzgibbon