Lyr Req: Redesdale and Wise William (Chris Coe)

Subject: Lyr Add: REDESDALE AND WISE WILLIAM (Chris Coe)
From: Roberto
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 07:48 AM

Child number 246. Chris Coe, A Wiser Fool, Backshift Music BASH CD51, 2001. Chris Coe: conjectural restoration, Child and Bronson.

Please, help me complete this text (I can't get a couple of words in stanza 11, and I need a general check to the rest. Thank you. R


Redesdale and Wise William
Sat drinking at the wine
And all the talk between them two
Was about the ladies fine
Was about the ladies fine

Said Redesdale unto William
I'll tell you what I'll do
I'll wager my lands against your head
And that is what I'll do
And that is what I'll do

That there's no woman in all this land
In a bower ever she been
That I cannot her favour win
But with one blink of my eye
But with one blink of my eye

Says William – I've a sister
In a bower wherever she be
And you will not her favour win
Not with ten blinks of your eye
Not with ten blinks of your eye

So Redesdale's took young William
And placed him in a prison strong
That he may neither go nor ride
Nor one word o' warning send her
Nor one word o' warning send

William wrote a letter
Between the night and day
And he sent it to his sister
By the white feather and the gray
By the white feather and the gray

Now she looked out of her west window
For to see what she could see
And there she spied him Redesdale
Come riding over the lea
Come riding over the lea

Come down, come down, you lady fair
One sight of you I'll see
For the gowns are of the silk so fine
That I will give to thee
That I will give to thee

If yours are of the silk so fine
Then mine's of the bonnie brown
So get you gone, you Redesdale
For I will not come down
For I will not come down

Come down, come down, fair lady
One sight of you I'll see
For the rings are of the gold so red
That I will give to thee
That I will give to thee

If yours are of the gold so red
Then mine's of the silver clear
So ..., you Redesdale
For you should not be here
For you should not be here

Come down, come down, fair lady
One sight of you I'll see
Or I will set your house on fire
If better cannot be
If better cannot be

So he has set her house on fire
And quickly it did flame
But there came a short sharp shour out of the wast
And put it out again
And put it out again

Then out from among the smoke and flames
The bonnie lady's come
With as muckle red gold wrapped around her neck
As could buy ten times over
As could buy ten times round

Oh woe betide you, ill woman
And an ill death may you die
For you have won your brother's head
An landless I must fly
An landless I must fly

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: chris coe's redesdale & wise william
From: GUEST,Linkin
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 07:51 AM

"f*ck" ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: chris coe's redesdale & wise william
From: Roberto
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 12:18 PM

The meaning is similar, but the words are different. Please, someone who owns this beautiful cd. R