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Thread #79005   Message #4094604
Posted By: Felipa
24-Feb-21 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: Seeger/Outlandish Knight version?
Subject: Lyr Add: THE FALSE KNIGHT UPON THE ROAD
There's already a link to YouTube on this thread, but here is another one of Pete Seeger singing The False Knight ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdp-4P-crOg

On another thread, someone pointed out that as a Child Ballad the title Seeger uses, The False Knight upon the Road, belongs to another song Child ballad number 3 The Fause Knight upon the Road https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch003.htm

‘O WHARE are ye gaun?’
Refrain: Quo the fause knicht upon the road:
‘I’m gaun to the scule,’
Refrain: Quo the wee boy, and still he stude.
3A.2 ‘What is that upon your back?’
Refrain: quo etc.
3A.2 ‘Atweel it is my bukes,’
Refrain: quo etc.
3A.3 ‘What’s that ye’ve got in your arm?’
‘Atweel it is my peit.’
3A.4 ‘Wha’s aucht they sheep?’
‘They are mine and my mither’s.’
3A.5 ‘How monie o them are mine?’
‘A’ they that hae blue tails.’
3A.6 ‘I wiss ye were on yon tree:’
‘And a gude ladder under me.’
3A.7 ‘And the ladder for to break:’
‘And you for to fa down.’
3A.8 ‘I wiss ye were in yon sie:’
And a gude bottom under me.’
3A.9 ‘And the bottom for to break:’
‘And ye to be drowned.’