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the owl service - hugh of lincoln lyrics

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it rains, it rains in merry lincoln
it rains both great and small
and all the boys of merry lincoln
come out to play at ball

they threw their ball so very high
and they kicked it also low
they toss’d it into the jew’s garden
where all the flowers do grow

then out she came, the jew’s daughter
all dressed in finest green
“come in, come in, my pretty sir hugh
you shall have you ball again.”

“oh, i can’t come in. i daren’t go in
with+out my playfellows too
for if my mother dear, she would be at the door
for she would cause my poor hеart to rue.”

she gave him a applе, green as the grass
she gave him a gay gold ring
then she gave him a cherry, as red as his blood
and enticed him in

she sat him upon a gilty chair
she gave him kisses, nine
then she laid him down on a golden bed
and stabbed him like a swine
and out did come the thick, thick blood
and out did come the thin
but out did flow his bonny heart’s blood
’till there was no life left in

she stretched him out of a dressing board
and clothed him like a sheep
then she flung him down the cold, old well
it was fifty fathoms deep

when mass was sung, and the bells were rung
and all the children went home
when ever mother had got her son
this poor poor boy’s mother had none

so she wrapped her mantle all about
and bitterly, she did weep
she ran ’till she came to the jew’s garden
when all was fast asleep

“well, my pretty young son
my fine, bonny hugh
i pray his sleep to me.”

“then run, dear mother
to the deep, cold well
and there my body, you’ll see”
“run home, run home, my mother+dear
and fetch my winding sheet
and it’s at the back ’o lincoln town
it’s there we two shall meet.”

when all the books in merry lincoln
were read without men’s tongues
and all the bells in the merry lincoln
without men’s hands were rung

- the owl service lyrics

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