jim moray - fair margaret and sweet william lyrics
sweet william arose on a may morning
and he’s dressed himself in blue;
we want you to tell the long love that’s been
between lady margret and you
“well, i know nothing lady margret’s love
and i know she don’t love me
before tomorrow morning at eight of the clock
lady margret a bride shall see.”
lady margret was a+sitting in her own bower room
combing back her yellow hair
when who should she see but sweet william and his bride
and the lawyers a+riding in
and it’s down she threw her ivory comb
back she threw her hair
and you can suppose and be very well assured
lady margret was heard no more
the day being past and the night coming on
when most all men were asleep
something appeared to sweet william and his bride
and stood at their bed feet
saying, “how do you like your bed making?
how do you like your sheets?
and how do you like the new wedded lady
that lies in your arms and sleeps?”
“very well do i like my bed making
better do i like my sheets
but best of all is the ghostly lady
that stands at my bed feet.”
the night being past and the day coming on
when most all men were awake
sweet william he said he was troubled in the head
by the dreams he dreamed last night
“such dreams, such dreams cannot be true
i fear they’re of no good
i dreamed my chamber was full of wild swine
and my bride’s bed floating in blood.”
so he’s called down his waiting men
by one, by two, by three
saying, “go and ask leave of my new wedded bride
if lady margret i might go and see.”
he’s rode up to lady margret’s door
and tingled on the pin
and who was so ready as her own dear brother
to rise and let him in
“is lady margret up in her own bower room
or is she in the hall?
or is she up in her high, high chamber
amongst the ladies all?”
“lady margret’s not in her own bower room
nor neither in the hall
but she is in her long cold coffin
lies pale against the wall.”
“unroll, unroll those winding sheets
although they’re very fine
and let me kiss the cold pale lips
just as often as they’ve kissed mine.”
the first he’s kissed her ivory cheeks
and then he’s kissed her chin
but when he’s kissed her cold pale lips
oh, there was no life within
lady margret died like it might be today
sweet william he’s died tomorrow
lady margret died of pure true love
and sweet william he’s died for sorrow
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