The Earl of Aboyne - June Tabor

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[00:00.00]The Earl of Aboyne - June Tabor
[00:13.70]The earl of aboyne to london
[00:16.74]Has gone and
[00:17.81]All his nobles
[00:19.66]With him
[00:20.56]
[00:21.35]Sad was the heart
[00:22.77]Of his lady fair because she
[00:25.60]Could not go with him
[00:27.93]The earl of aboyne to london
[00:30.62]Has gone and
[00:31.75]All his nobles
[00:33.64]With him
[00:34.37]
[00:35.18]Better he had stayed at home
[00:38.39]Or taken his lady
[00:40.22]With him
[00:41.26]
[00:41.92]And as she walked out upon
[00:44.15]The green among the
[00:46.55]Gentlewomen
[00:48.31]
[00:48.95]Sad was the letter that came to her
[00:51.61]Hand that
[00:52.38]Her lord was wed in london
[00:55.26]
[00:55.84]And as she looked o'er
[00:57.92]The castle wall she saw
[01:00.02]Two boys a running
[01:02.69]What news what news my bonny
[01:05.37]Little boys what news
[01:07.12]Have you of london
[01:09.62]Good news good news my lady
[01:12.76]Gay for the
[01:13.72]Earl of aboyne
[01:14.99]Is coming
[01:16.75]And ere he's within two miles
[01:19.30]Of your walls you
[01:20.57]Hear his bridles ringing
[01:23.77]My groom's all be well
[01:26.38]In call and happy
[01:28.14]Days they are shining
[01:30.26]
[01:30.79]Gone are days spent
[01:32.94]On the stays since the
[01:34.73]Lord of aboyne is coming
[01:37.31]
[01:37.84]And my mate's all be well in call
[01:41.51]And happier
[01:42.59]Flowers are shining
[01:44.37]
[01:44.96]And cover the stair
[01:46.58]With herbs sweet and fair and
[01:48.47]The floors with the
[01:49.69]Finest linen
[01:51.89]And deck my body
[01:53.69]In the finest
[01:54.79]Array and my
[01:55.76]Hood of the brightest linen
[01:58.80]And my apron shall be of the good silk cloth
[02:02.16]Since the earl of aboyne is coming
[02:05.83]So stately she stepped
[02:08.05]Down the stair to see if
[02:10.58]He was coming
[02:12.83]And her gown was of the good
[02:15.47]Green silk trimmed
[02:16.71]With her red silk trimming
[02:19.82]She's called to kate her waiting
[02:22.78]Maid and jean her
[02:24.61]Gentl ewoman
[02:26.88]Come fetch me a glass of
[02:28.80]The very best wine
[02:30.34]To drink his health he's coming
[02:33.50]
[03:02.41]She gone out to the close
[03:04.08]To her lord says
[03:05.84]Him welcome for your coming
[03:09.28]She gone out to the close
[03:11.09]To her lord says
[03:12.98]Him thrice welcome from
[03:15.07]London
[03:15.86]
[03:16.50]If I be of this welcome
[03:18.93]As you say
[03:19.82]Then kiss me for my coming
[03:23.31]For tomorrow should have been
[03:25.14]My wedding day if I'd
[03:27.13]Stayed any longer in london
[03:30.21]She turned the around
[03:31.98]With a look of distaste
[03:33.69]Says woe's me for your coming
[03:37.26]Since tomorrow should have been
[03:38.99]Your wedding day then go
[03:41.16]Kiss your w in london
[03:44.30]My nobles all come mount
[03:47.00]Your steed I'm sorry for
[03:49.59]My coming
[03:50.84]
[03:51.54]Tonight we shall
[03:52.73]Lie at the bonny bogie's
[03:54.40]Side since
[03:54.94]Tomorrow the course is to london
[03:58.45]Tom my man run after him
[04:02.19]And beg him
[04:03.06]To take me with him
[04:05.31]I've asked him once and
[04:07.30]I've asked him the
[04:08.37]More and it's never
[04:09.72]A mile you'll ride with him
[04:12.21]Then a year and a day she lived in woe
[04:15.79]And the doctors
[04:17.07]They were dealing
[04:18.86]
[04:19.38]Until at last her heart
[04:21.94]It broke and letters were
[04:24.15]Sent to london
[04:26.23]When he saw the letters
[04:28.20]All edged in black
[04:29.66]He's bound to grievest weeping
[04:32.91]
[04:33.49]She is dead that I loved most and I
[04:37.18]Had but a heart in keeping
[04:40.28]There were fifteen of noblest
[04:43.27]Lords that london could provide
[04:46.38]Him
[04:47.24]From their hose to their
[04:48.69]Hat they were all dressed
[04:50.14]In black to mourn for
[04:52.16]Bonny peggy irvine
[04:53.86]
[04:54.38]And the farther he rode
[04:56.40]The sorer he wept for
[04:58.12]He had but a heart in keeping
[05:01.35]Sooner I had lost
[05:03.06]All the lands of aboyne
[05:04.89]
[05:05.64]Than my bonnie peggy irvine