[ilingku:121]
[ver:v1.0]
[ti:Prince Heathen]
[ar:Martin Carthy]
[al:Essential]
[by:]
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[00:00.000]Prince Heathen - Martin Carthy
[00:37.139]Lady stand in the garden fair sewing a silken seam
[00:41.598]And by there come this prince then and he vowed
[00:44.547]Her love he'd gain
[00:46.025]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[00:50.797]Oh never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[00:56.492]She turned her around and aloud did cry begone
[00:58.816]I love not you
[01:00.979]And then he vowed him prince then that she would
[01:03.936]Weep full sore
[01:05.508]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[01:10.214]Oh never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[01:16.838]So he's laid her all on the ground between himself
[01:19.987]And the wall
[01:21.445]And there he's stripped of her will
[01:23.689]And maiden head and all
[01:26.133]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[01:30.616]Oh never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[01:36.275]Oh I slew your father in his bed and your
[01:39.190]Mother by his side
[01:40.841]And seven brothers one by one I drowned them in the tide
[01:45.333]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[01:50.103]Oh never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[01:55.798]Oh I'll lay you in a vault of stone with
[01:58.352]Thirty locks upon
[01:59.949]And meat nor drink you will never get till your
[02:02.631]Baby it is born
[02:04.560]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[02:09.307]Oh never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[02:13.460]So he's laid her in a vault of stone with
[02:16.142]Thirty locks upon
[02:18.154]And he's taken the key in his right hand to
[02:20.555]The mountain he has gone
[02:22.590]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[02:27.337]Oh never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[02:50.628]Prince heathen he from the mountains came with his merry
[02:53.169]Men all in a line
[02:55.160]And he sought out this pretty young girl maid down in
[02:58.069]Her vault of stone
[02:59.491]And how d'you do and do you weep lady tell me true
[03:04.116]I'm never weeping heathen dog but dying here for you
[03:08.348]Oh meat nor drink you'll never get nor out of prison come
[03:12.897]Oh meat nor drink you will never get till your
[03:15.529]Baby it is born
[03:17.374]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[03:21.953]Ah never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[04:03.195]Her time came on and further on in labour there she lay
[04:07.697]She laay laboured up she laboured down
[04:09.808]But lighter she could not be
[04:12.290]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[04:16.813]Ah never yet you heathen dog and never yet for you
[04:22.312]So he's laid her all on the green and his
[04:25.234]Merry men stood around
[04:26.628]And how they laughed and how they mocked as she
[04:29.602]Brought forth a son
[04:31.242]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[04:35.973]Ah never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you
[04:58.263]A drink a drink the young girl cries all from
[05:00.774]Prince heathen's hand
[05:02.356]Oh never a drop prince heathen cries till ye give
[05:05.501]Up your son
[05:06.936]O lady will you weep for me
[05:16.021]Lend to me a silken shawl or a blanket or a sheet
[05:20.346]That I may wrap this little baby that lies in
[05:23.490]Me arms asleep
[05:25.140]O lady will you weep for me
[05:33.989]Oh I'll lend you an old horse blanket to wrap
[05:36.601]Him head and feet
[05:38.272]And there she took it in her hand so bitter
[05:41.264]She did weep
[05:42.916]O lady do you weep for me lady tell me true
[05:47.458]Oh never yet you heathen dog and never now for you
[05:53.104]Could you not give any better thing than a horse
[05:55.862]Blanket or a sheet
[05:57.288]To wrap and swaddle your own young son that lies
[06:00.083]In my arms asleep
[06:10.781]He's borne her up so very soft borne her up so slow
[06:15.235]He's laid her down in a soft green bed so
[06:18.076]Dearly he loved her now
[06:19.703]O lady will you weep for me lady tell me true
[06:24.366]Ah never yet you heathen dog I never shall for you