Тексты песен «Steeleye Span»

(traditional) Alison Gross that lives in yon tower The ugliest witch in the North Country Has trysted me one day up to her bower And many a fair speech she made to me She stroked my head and she combed my hair She set...

Chorus: All around my hat, I will wear the green willow All around my hat, For a twelvemonth and a day And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm wearing it, It's all for my true love, Who is far, far away Fare thee...

All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest, When me and my true love lay snug in one nest, When a bold set of ruffians broke into our cave, And they forced my dear jewel to plough the salt wave. I begged hard...

And the evergreen flame Together in a dark day Appears symbolic Even in the dream There is mysterious Mystical promise In the two together And these combined With a smoldering sultry gray Almost moonlit

I rode seven horses all to death I rode them till they had no breath I wore five saddles to the trees None of those girls will marry me. Those women will fret, those women will fuss They spend five hours before their...

Beyond the dreaming place I watch from my darkness All the stars I know Kiss your head, my love Beyond the dreaming place And no backward journey Nothing's left of that time That door is shut forever Now is the time to...

Late last night when the squire came home Enquiring for his lady Some denied and some replied She's gone with the Black Jack Davy Go saddle to me the bonny brown steed For the grey was never so speedy I'll ride all day...

Late last night when the squire came home Enquiring for his lady Some denied and some replied She's gone with the Black Jack Davy Go saddle to me the bonny brown steed For the grey was never so speedy I'll ride all day...

It's in the evening after dark When the blackleg miner creeps to work, With his moleskin pants and dirty shirt, There goes the blackleg miner. Well, he grabs his duds and down he goes, To hew the coal that lies below,...

A blacksmith courted me nine months or better He fairly won my heart, wrote me a letter With his hammer in his hand he looked so clever And if I were with my love I would live forever Oh where has my love gone with his...

Come fill up your glasses and let us be merry, For to rob bags of plunder it is our intent. Chorus As we roam through the valleys Where the lilies and the roses And the beauty of Kashmir lay drooping his head Then away,...

(Hogg's "Jacobite reliques") Cam ye o'er frae France? Cam ye doon by Lunnon? Saw ye Geordie Whelps And his bonnie woman? Oh, weren't ye at the place Called the Kittle Housie? Saw ye Geordie's grace A-ridin' on a goosie?...

A knight he rode his lonely way Thinking about his wedding day As he rode through a forest near The elf king's daughter did appear Out she stepped from the elfin band Smiling she held out her hand Welcome Sir Knight,...

Late last night when the squire came home Inquiring for his lady Some denied and some replied She's gone with the Black Jack Davey Go saddle to me the bonny brown steed For the gray was never so speedy I'll ride all...

What makes you go abroad fighting for strangers When you could be safe at home free from all dangers? A recruiting sergeant came our way To an Inn nearby at the close of day He said young Johnny you're a fine young man...

There chanced to be a pedlar bold A pedlar bold he chanced to be He rolled his pack all on his back And he came tripping o'er the sea By chance he met two troublesome blades Troublesome blades they chanced to be One of...

Gaudete, gaudete Christus est natus Ex Maria Virgine Gaudete Tempus adest gratiae Hoc quod optabamus Carmina laetitiae Devote reddamus Deus homo factus est Natura mirante Mundus renovatus est A Christo...

Married him in April, lost him in July; Listen to my story and I'll tell you why, They said that he'd been poaching and stealing wine, They said I wouldn't see him for a long long time. Chorus: They said he's gone to...

Gaudete, gaudete Christos est natus Ex Maria virginae, gaudete. Tempus ad est gratiae hoc quod optabamus, Carmina laetitiae devote redamus. Gaudete, gaudete Christos est natus Ex Maria virginae, gaudete. Deus homo...

Come all brother, tradesmen that travel along O pray, come and tell me where the trade is all gone Long time have I traveled and I cannot find none And sing all the hard times of old England In old England, very hard...