Tam Lin (from the film 'Tam Lin')

Oh I forbid you maidens all

That wear gold in your hair

To come or go by Carter Hall

For young Tam Lin is there

Tam Lin was a-walking one bright morning

Across the hills so green

And he's cared nothing for where he'd go

Nor nothing for where he'd be

And he's crossed over the little footbridge

And down to Carter Hall

With steps so fine he passes by

You would think that he owned it all

So swiftly did the waters flow

As he came down beside

And you must go and greet him there

For now's no time to hide

Oh I forbid you maidens all

That wear gold in your hair

To come or go by Carter Hall

For young Tam Lin is there

As he stood so still by the churchyard wall

He spied his lady fair

And they surely knew that they must live

And love without a care

Oh pleasant is the fairy land

But an eerie tale to tell

That at the end of seven years

We pay a tithe to hell

I am so young and fair of face

I'm feared it will be myself

He had not pulled a double rose

A rose but only two

Till up then started young Tam Lin

Says "Think what you mean to do"

Oh why for you the rose, Janet

Among the groves so green?

You must not kill the bonny babe

But we got us between

Out spoke the queen of the fairy land

And an angry woman was she

"She's taken away the bonniest knight

In all my company

And adieu Tam Lin, but had I known

The secrets in your mind

I would have picked out your two fine eyes

And left you beggar blind"