False Lover John歌词

[00:00.500]False lover John he courted me for every hour in the day
[00:08.000]He courted me til such a degree that I hadn't a word to say
[00:15.500]It's take you all of your father's gold and all of your mother's money
[00:23.500]And steal the keys of your father's stable and thirty steeds and three
[00:31.600]And she had stolen her father's gold and all of her mother's money
[00:39.500]And the keys of her father's stable and thirty steeds and three
[00:46.500]And they have mounted ten milk white steeds rode on by the clear silvery light of the moon
[00:55.500]Until they reach the banks of the river and there they did get down
[01:17.500]Lie you down Miss Maegellín this night along with me
[01:24.100]For here I killed seven king's daughters the eighth one will be thee
[01:31.500]Well turn you round false John she said and view the green leaves on the tree
[01:38.200]It ill because a learning man a naked maid to see
[01:46.500]False lover John he turned around to view the green leaves on the tree
[01:53.500]She threw her arms around his waist and flung him into the sea
[02:01.300]It's there you lie false John she said til death it comes to thee
[02:08.700]For you thought you'd kill me as I was born and take my clothes from me
[02:44.500]Oh reach in your gentle hand and take me to dry land
[02:52.000]And every vow that I have made I'll double it all in once
[03:00.500]She has mounted her milk white steed rode on by the clear silvery light of the moon
[03:07.500]Until she reach her father's castle and there she did get down
[03:15.500]She put the steed all in to the stable the money to where it lay
[03:21.700]And there wasn't a lord in all of the castle knew Maegellín was away