Song Lyrics Unknown - Clerk Colvill    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Clerk Colvill Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Clerk Colvill Theme ID: 3662 Album: N/A Clerk Colvill Clerk Colvill and his lusty dame Were walking in the garden green, The belt around her stately waist Cost Clerk Colvill of pounds fifteen. "O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life." "Now speak nae mair, my lusty dame, Now speak nae mair of that to me; Did I neer see a fair woman But I wad sin with my body?' He's taen leave o his gay lady, Nought minding what his lady said, And he's rode by the wells of Slane, Where washing was a bonny maid. "Wash on, wash on, my bonny maid, That wash sae clean your sark of silk;" "It's a' for you, ye gentle knight, My skin is whiter than the milk." He's taen her by the milk-white hand, And likewise by the grass-green sleeve, And laid her down upon the green, Nor of his lady speer'd he leave. Then loud, loud cry'd the Clerk Colvill, "O my head it pains me sair;" "Then take, then take," the maiden said, "And frae my sark you'll cut a gare" Then she's gied him a little bane-knife, And frae her sark he cut a share; She's ty'd it round his whey-white face, But ay his head it aked mair. Then Iouder cry'd the Clerk Colvill, "O sairer, sairer akes my head" "And sairer, sairer ever will," The maiden crys, "till you be dead" Out then he drew his shining blade Thinking to stick her where she stood, But she was vanished to a fish And swam far off, a fair mermaid. "O mother, mother, braid my hair My lusty lady, make my bed. O brother, take my sword and spear For I have seen the false mermaid." Note: English versions of this are a bit confused. In Scandinavian versions, CC has deserted his mermaid to marry a human. The fatal shirt is the mermaid's revenge. Child #42 From Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World. @revenge @myth @love @revenge @ballad filename[ CLRKCLVL RG ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Cockels And Mussels, Cod Liver Ile, Cold Haily Rainy Night, Cold Winter Shadow, Colin And Phoebe, Collier Laddie, Colombia Native Anthem Text, Colorado Trail, Come All Ye Southern Soldiers, Come All You Coal Miners, Come All You Garners Gay, Come And Dine, Come And Join The Air Force, Come Be A Soldier For Marlboro And Me, Come By The Hills, Come Fare Away, Come Feed The Black Sow, Come Kiss Me Love, Come O My Love, Come to Sin, Come To The Bower, Comical Ditty, Comin Round The Mountain, Coming Down With Old Vd, Coming Of The Roads, Coming Round The Mountain, Commonwealth Of Toil, Commuters Coronach, Computer Love Song, Con Las Abejas, Confederate Yankee Doodle, Congleton Bear, Congo River, Constant Sorrow, Constitution And The Guerriere, Cooper O Dundee, Copilots Lament, Copper Kettle, Corn Rigs Or Rigs O Barley, Cornish May Carol, Cornish Wassail, Cornwallis Country Dance, Corrie Doon, Cosher Baileys Engine, Cosmic And Freaky, Cosmic Love Song, Costa Rica Native Anthem Text, Coulters Candy, Counting The Goats Cyfrir Giefr, Country Boy, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson 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