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| | | Artist: | Lloyd |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | Prince Heathen | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 238 | | | | Lyrics: | Prince Heathen
Young Margaret sat in a tower high
And she's as pale as a milk white
swan
When she saw a shadow on the plain
Come betwixt her and the sun.
"Oh,
mother, is it a thundercloud
Or a flight of ravens in the air,
Or a black army with a
silver flag
And a ragged man amongst them there?"
"Oh, daughter, go run in your
little yard
And bid adieu to your flowers so gay.
For yonder comes Prince Heathen's
men
And I fear they're coming to take you away."
In there come Prince Heathen then,
saying
"Good day mother-in-law to you.
And where will l find that sweet little
bride
With her hands as soft as morning dew?"
Young Margaret locked her bower
door
But his men soon made the hinges spring
And in there come Prince Heathen
then
And give to her a gay gold ring.
Back at him the ring she flung
She cries
"Of you I have no fear.
I'll call you wolf-hound seven times
Rather then call you husband
dear."
He swore then, by her yellow hair,
He'd make her weep and call him
dear.
He's taken her in his two dark arms,
And laid her on the cold stone
floor.
And when he set her free again,
Her maidenhead from her he's ta'en:
"Ha
ha, bonny maid, will you weep now?"
"You heathenish dog, nor yet for you."
He's cast
her down in a cabin of stone
Where forty locks did hang thereto.
"Ha ha, bonny maid, will
you weep now?"
"You heathenish dog, nor yet for you."
"Come, give my lady of the
salt, salt meat,
And bitter vinegar for her brew,
"Ha ha, bonny maid, will you weep
now?"
"You heathenish dog, nor yet for you."
Prince Heathen down from the mountains
came
Where he'd been hunting with his armoured men.
He came unto this fair young
maid
All in the prison where she is laid.
"A drink, a drink, Prince Heathen" she
said.
"Even if it's from the muddy well pool."
"Never a drink! Will you weep
now?"
"You heathenish dog, nor yet for thee."
He's taken her by her yellow
hair,
And tied it to his horse's tail.
He's dragged her through the bushes and
briars
That grow so thick all on the plain
"Ride slower, slower, Prince Heathen" she
says
"Already the blood has filled me shoe".
"Ha ha, bonny maid, will you weep
now?"
"You heathenish dog, nor yet for you."
He shortened stirrups and on he
flew,
And with her body he's harrowed the road.
Her silken skirt in tatters tore,
Her
silken blouse was spattered with blood.
"Ride slower, slower, Prince Heathen," she
says
"For the road it sorely hurts my knee".
"Ha ha, bonny maid, will you weep
now?"
"You heathenish dog, nor yet for thee."
He shortened stirrups and on he
flew.
He's dragged her through the briar and thorns.
Young Margaret gave a pitiful
cry,
And there she's had her little babe born.
"Oh how can I wrap me sweet little
babe
Seeing as I've nothing to roll him in?"
He give to her his saddle
blanket
"That'll roll him from cheek to chin".
As she took the blanket from his
hand
Tears down her cheeks they trickling run.
"Ha ha, bonny maid, will you weep
now?".
"You heathenish dog, nor yet for you."
"I'm weeping for me own little
son;
Your blanket's too rough to roll him in,
Ever and alas, the day I rue
That ever
I met such rogues as you!"
He says "Go wash my baby in the milk,
And dress my lady
in the silk;
When hearts are breaking, hands must bow,
And well I love my lady
now".
She says "When violets bloom on the window-pane
And roses grow on the kitchen
floor,
It's then that I'll return again
And be your bride forevermore".
Child
#104
A. L. Lloyd refurbished this ancient Child ballad. The
chilling tension of the song
stems from the juxtaposition be-
tween stark physical brutality and psychological
complexity.
@marriage
Recorded by Frankie Armstrong
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