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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 93
Lamkin
Version U

  1. The Ballad Book, by William Allingham, p. xxxiii, part of a version sung by a nurse in the family of a relative in Ireland,
  2. The same, p. 297, No 56, a compounded version.

Narrative

1   As my lord and my lady
were out walking one day,
Says my lord to my lady,
Beware of Lamkin.
2   'O why should I fear him,
or any such man,
When my doors are well barrd,
and my windows well pinnd?'
* * * * *
3   'O keep your gold and silver,
it will do you some good;
It will buy you a coffin,
when you are dead.'
4   There's blood in the kitchen,
and blood in the hall,
And the young Mayor of England
lies dead by the wall.

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