Child Waters
Peggy Seeger

Child waters

I warn you all you ladies fair that do wear red and brown

That you don't leave your father's house to run with a boy from town

For here am I, a lady fair, I did wear red and brown

And I did leave my father's house to run with a boy from town

He's mounted on his big white horse and fast away rode he

She dressed herself like a little footboy, she ran at the horse's knee

And when they came to the river's edge that was so deep and wide

Oh, will you swim, her lover said, Or hang on the horse's side?

The very first step that lady took, it reached up to her knee

Oh alas, alas, that lady said, I fear you're drowning me

Lie still, lie still, my baby dear, don't work your mother woe

Your father's high on high horseback, he cares not for us two

But when she's come to the other side, she's mounted on a stone

He's turned around his big white horse and took her on behind

Oh do you see yon high castle, that shines so white and free?

There is a lady in that castle, that will part you and me

She will eat the good white bread, you will eat but corn

And you will sit and curse the hour ever you was born

If there's a lady in that castle that will part you and I

The day I see her, Ellen said, That day I will die

Four and twenty ladies gay welcomed the young man home

But the fairest one among them all in the great hall stood alone

And then upspoke his old mother, and a wise woman was she

Where did you come in with that little footboy, that looks so sad at

Thee?

Sometimes his cheek is rosy red, sometime's it's pale and wan

He looks like a woman deep in love or caught in deadly sin

It makes me smile, my mother dear, to hear those words from thee

That's but a lord's own younger son, who for love hath followed me

Rise up, rise up, my little footboy, go feed my horse his hay

Oh that I will, my master dear, fast as ever I may

She took the hay in her soft white hands, she ran out from the hall

She ran into the great stable and into the horse's stall

And there she did begin to weep, she did begin to mourn

For even among those great horse feet, she had to bear her son

Lie still, lie still, my baby dear, thou pledge of careless love

I would thy father was a king, thy mother in her grave

Rise up, rise up, my darling son, go see how she do fare

For I heard a woman and her baby calling for your care

Up he rose and down he goes, into the barn he went

Fear not, fear not, fair Ellen, he said, There's no one here but me

Up he took his little young son and gave to him sweet milk

And up he took fair Ellen then and dressed her in green silk

Child #63

Recorded by Peggy Seeger & Ewan Maccoll on Blood & Roses I

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