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Posted By: GUEST
03-Jul-05 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Proud Lady Margaret (Chris Coe, #47)
Subject: Lyr Req: Chris Coe's Proud Lady Margaret (#47)
PLease, help me with this transcription. No notes at all on the lp about the source. I've put a question mark where I'm not sure of what I've written down. Thanks. R
Proud Lady Margaret Chris Coe, on Pete & Chris Coe, Out of Season, Out of Rhyme, Trailer LER 2098, 1976.
I have come here to your castle wall All for the love of thee And if you will not grant me love Then this night for thee I'll die
Oh, you must read my riddles – she said And answer me questions three And if you read them wrong – she said Then it's surely you will die
Oh, what's the flower, the very first flower Springs up (??)with the moor and dale? And what's the bird, the bonnie bonnie bird Sings on the evening gale?
Oh, primrose is the very first flower Springs up (??) with the moor and dale The thristlecock is the bonniest bird Sings on the evening gale
Oh, what's the smallest coin - she said That can buy my castles round? And what's the smallest boat - she said That can sail the wide world round?
How ever many small pennies Make thrice three thousand pound? And many are the small fishes That swim the salt seas round?
I am your brother John – he said 'Though I know that you know not me I cannot rest into my grave All from the pride of thee
Oh, when you go in at yon church door With the yellow gold in your hair It's you care more for your weel (???) red locks Than you do for the morning prayer
If you're my brother John – she said Then this night I'll go with thee You've ill-washed hands and feet – he said For to gang to the clay wi' me
Leave pride, Janet, leave pride, Janet Leave pride and vanitie To trek (?) the road that I have come Much changed you must be
Oh, he found her in her stately ha A-combing her yellow hair He left her on her sick, sick bed A-sheding the sault, sault tear