Lyr Add: You and I in the One Bed Lie

Subject: Lyr Add: YOU AND I IN THE ONE BED LIE^^
From: Kiwi
Date: 13 Jul 98 - 07:46 PM

Here's an alternate version of "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship", as sung by Cathie Ryan:

Slán,
Kiwi

YOU AND I IN THE ONE BED LIE

A nobleman's fair daughter was walkin' down yon lane
When up comes Captain Dixon, the keeper of the game
Says he unto his serving-man, "If it was not for the law
I'd have that maid within my bed and she'd lie next to the wall."

"Go away young man," says she, "and do not me perplex
Before I lie one night with you you'll answer questions six
Six questions you will answer, and I will make them all
Before you and I in the one bed lie and I lie next to the wall.

"What is rounder than a ring? What's higher than a tree?
What is worse than womankind? What's deeper than the sea?
What tree blooms first? What bird sings best? From where do dewdrops fall?
Then it's you and I in the one bed lie and I lie next to the wall."

"A globe is rounder than a ring, sky higher than a tree.
A girl is worse than womankind, hell deeper than the sea.
The yew blooms first, the thrust sings best, from heaven the dewdrops fall,
Now it's you and I in the one bed lie, and you lie next to the wall."

"You must get for me some winter fruit that in December grew.
Find for me a mantle, a weft it ne'er went through.
A sparrow's horn, a priest unshorn, a bird without a gall.
Then it's you and I in the one bed lie and I lie next to the wall."

"My father has some winter fruit that in December grew.
My mother wears a mantle, a weft it never went through.
A sparrow's horn's not hard to find, there's one in every claw.
Melchizedek is a priest unshorn." - and he rolled her to the wall!

Subject: RE: LYR Add: You and I In the One Bed Lie
From: Martin Ryan.
Date: 13 Jul 98 - 07:50 PM

That version was very much associated with the famous piper Seamus Ennis, in Ireland.

Regards

Subject: RE: LYR Add: You and I In the One Bed Lie
From: Kiwi
Date: 14 Jul 98 - 05:33 PM

Do you know where I could find a copy of Seamus Ennis singing it? Thanks..

Slán, Kiwi