Willie O'Winsbury

Willie O'Winsbury Lyrics

Song Willie O'Winsbury
Artist Meg Baird
Album Dear Companion
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[00:26.32] "Daughter, oh, daughter," said the king,
[00:32.43] "Why're you so pale and wan?
[00:38.66] I fear you have some sore sickness,
[00:45.99] Or else you have laid with a man."
[00:51.63] "You're welcome, you're welcome, my father dear,
[00:58.62] You are welcome home to me.
[01:04.62] For I have sick unto my heart
[01:11.49] Since you've been so long on the sea."
[01:17.65] "Cast off, cast off your berry-brown gown;
[01:24.11] Stand naked upon the stone,
[01:30.11] That I might know you by your shape
[01:37.72] Whether you be a maiden or no."
[01:43.89] So she's cast off her berry-brown gown;
[01:50.84] She's stood naked upon the stone.
[01:56.55] Her apron was low and her middle was round,
[02:03.91] Her face was pale and wan.
[02:09.83] "Oh, was it with a lord or a duke or a knight?
[02:16.79] Or a man of birth and fame?
[02:22.45] Or was it with one of my serving men
[02:30.04] That's lately come out of Spain?"
[02:35.75] "No, it wasn't with a lord nor a duke nor a knight,
[02:42.52] Nor a man of birth and fame.
[02:48.72] But it was with Willie O'Winsbury;
[02:55.70] I could bide no longer alone."
[03:01.67] The king, he has sent for his merry men all
[03:08.81] By thirty and by three,
[03:14.49] Saying, "Fetch me this Willie O'Winsbury,
[03:21.72] For hanged he shall be."
[03:27.93] But when he was brought before the king,
[03:33.36] He was clad all in red silk.
[03:39.97] His hair was like the strands of gold,
[03:47.29] His skin was white as milk.
[03:52.94] "It is no wonder," said the king,
[03:59.65] "How my daughter's love you did win,
[04:06.72] For if I was a woman as I am a man,
[04:12.27] My bedfellow you would have been.
[04:19.69] "Will you marry my daughter Janet
[04:25.59] By the truth of your right hand?
[04:32.22] And if you'll marry my daughter Janet,
[04:39.50] I will make you the lord of my lands."
[04:45.50] "Yes, I will marry your daughter Janet
[04:52.69] By the truth of my right hand,
[04:58.45] But I'll not have your gold and I'll not have your gear,
[05:06.05] And I'll not be the lord of your land.
[05:12.62] "For I have houses and I have land,
[05:18.71] I have men at my command.
[05:25.55] And were it not for your daughter fair,
[05:32.63] I would not be your servant man."
[05:39.14] He sat her upon a milk white steed
[05:45.71] And himself on a dapple gray;
[05:51.43] He has made her the lady of as much land
[05:58.92] As she can ride in a long summer's day.
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