Song Lyrics Fairport Convention - Jack Orion    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> F>> Fairport Convention Singer Lyrics [Fairport Convention other resources]>> Jack Orion Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Fairport Convention Music Title/Track: Jack Orion Theme ID: 2080 Album: N/A Jack O'Rion was the finest fiddler ever fiddled on the string He could drive young ladies wild with a tune his wires would sing He could fiddle the fish out of salt water, water from a marble stone Or milk from out a maiden's breast though baby she had none There he played in the castle hall and there he played them fast asleep Except it was for the young countess who, for love, she stayed awake So first he played her a slow air and then he played it brisk and gay And oh, dear love, behind her glove, this lady she did say "Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed and flapped their wings so wide It's you must come to my chamber there and lie down by my side" So he wrapped his fiddle in a cloth of green and he stole out on his a-tip-a-toe And he's off back to his young boy Tom as fast as he could go "Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed and flapped their wings so wide I'm bid to go to the lady's door and stretch out by her side" "Lie down, lie down, my good master, here's a blanket to your hand And I'll waken you in as good a time as any cock in this land" Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand, he fiddled and he played for a full hour Until he played him fast asleep; he's off to the lady's bower And when he came to her chamber door, he twirled softly at the pin The lady, true to her promise, rose up and let him in He did not take that lady gay to bolster nor to bed But down upon the hard cold floor right soon he had her laid And he did not kiss her when he came nor yet but from her he did go But in out the lady's bedroom window, the moon like a coal did glow "Ragged are your stockings, love, and stubbly is your cheek and chin And tousled is that yellow hair that I saw yestereve" "These stockings belong to my boy Tom, they were the first came to my hand The wind must have tousled my yellow hair and I rode over the land" Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand, he fiddled and he played so saucily He's off back to his master's house as fast as go could he "Wake up, wake up, oh my good master, why snore you there so loud? There's not a cock in all this land but has clapped his wings and crowed" Jack O'Rion took the fiddle into his hand and he fiddled and he played so merrily He's off away to the lady's house as fast as go could he And when he came to the lady's door, he twirled so softly at the pin Saying "Oh, my dear, it's your true love, rise up and let me in" She said "Surely you didn't leave behind a golden brooch nor a velvet glove Or are you returning back again to taste more of my love?" Jack O'Rion, he swore a bloody oath, by oak, by ash, by bitter thorn "Lady, I never was in your house since the day that I was born" "Oh, then it was your young boy Tom that cruelly has beguiled me" "Oh woe, that the blood of that ruffian boy did spring in my body" Jack O'Rion sped off to his own house, saying "Tom, my boy, come here to me" He hung him from his own gatepost, high as a willow tree Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Mr. Lacey, Night-Time Girl, No Mans Land, No Mans Land, Nottamun Town, Now Be Thankful, One More Chance, One Sure Thing, Over The Next Hill, Part I, Part Ii, Part Iv, Part Iv The Sailors Alphabet, Part Ix, Part V, Part V John Lee, Part Vi, Part Vi Breakfast In Mayfair, Part Vii, Part Viii, Part X, Part Xi, Part Xi The Hanging Song, Percys Song, Pleasure and Pain, Polly on the Shore, Possibly Parsons Green, Restless, Reynard The Fox, Reynardine, Rising for the Moon, Rolling Minstrels, She Moves Through the Fair, Si Tu Dois Partir, Sickness & Diseases, Sir Patrick Spens, Sir William Gower, Sloth, Stranger to Himself, Sun Shade, Tale in Hard Time, Tam Lin, The Bonny Black Hare, The Deserter, The Hexhamshire Lass, The Journeymans Grace, The Journeymans Grace, The Lobster, The Summer Before The War, The Widow Of Westmorlands Daughter, Other Fairport Convention song Lyrics A Sailors Life Lyrics After Halloween Lyrics Angel Delight Lyrics Autopsy Lyrics The Banks Of Sweet Primroses Lyrics Big William Lyrics Book Song Lyrics Bring em Down Lyrics Bring Em Down Lyrics Cajun Woman Lyrics Chelsea Morning Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Fairweather Lyrics Fairyland Lyrics Fairytale Lyrics Faith Lyrics Faith And The Muse Lyrics Faith Blind Lyrics Faith Evans Lyrics Faith Evans F/ 112 Lyrics Faith Evans F/ Carl Thomas Lyrics Faith Evans F/ Mary J. Blige, LaTonya Blige, Gordon Chambers Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy