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Thread #84063 Message #1549498
Posted By: Roberto
25-Aug-05 - 12:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Fair Maid of Wallington (June Tabor, #91)
Subject: Lyr Add: FAIR MARY OF WALLINGTON (Child #91)
FAIR MARY OF WALLINGTON (F.J. Child #91). I'd like to get the ytext as sung by June Tabor. The Fair Maid of Wallington
June Tabor, Always, disc B, Topic TSCD559, 2005; ballad recorded in 1974. Please, help me correct and complete the trascription. Thanks. R
When we were silly sisters seven sisters were so mild (or wild?)
Five went to bride bed and five are dead with child
Then it's up spoke young Mary and ...(?) she would bide
For if ever she was in man's bed, the same death she would die
O it's take no vows, Mary, for fear they broken be
For there is a Knight in Wallington asking good will of thee
Of if there is a knight, mother, asking good will of me
Then it's in three quarters of a year you may bury me
Well, she had not been in Wallington three quarters and a day
Till she was as big with baby as any lady
Oh is there not a boy in this town that would win up hose and shoe
Then it's up spoke a page-boy: Your errand I will run
Give respects to my mother as she sits in her chair of stone
Ask her how she likes the news of seven to have but one
When her mother she heard the news in anger cried she
And she's kickt the table with her foot and kickt it with her knee
Then she's calld for her waiting-maid and also her stable-groom:
Come fetch me my cloak and go saddle up the brown
But when they came to Wallington and into Wallington hall
There were four and twenty ladies that let the tears down fall
And her daughter she had a scope into her cheek and into her chin
All for to keep her sweet life till her mother she come in
Now she's taken a razor that was both sharp and fine
And from out of her left side she's took the heir to Wallington
Oh, there is a race in Wallington, and that I rue full sore
Tho the cradle it be well spread up, the bride-bed is left bare
And when we were silly sisters seven sisters were so mild
Five went to bride bed and five are dead with child
Then it's up spoke young Mary and ...(?) she would bide
For if ever she was in man's bed, the same death she would die