Jack O'rion
Fairport Convention

Jack O'Rion was the finest fiddler ever fiddled on the string

He could drive young ladies wild with a tune his wires would sing

He could fiddle the fish out of salt water, water from a marble stone

Or milk from out a maiden's breast though baby she had none

There he played in the castle hall and there he played them fast asleep

Except it was for the young countess who, for love, she stayed awake

So first he played her a slow air and then he played it brisk and gay

And oh, dear love, behind her glove, this lady she did say

Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed and flapped their wings so wide

It's you must come to my chamber there and lie down by my side

So he wrapped his fiddle in a cloth of green and he stole out on his a-tip-a-toe

And he's off back to his young boy Tom as fast as he could go

Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed and flapped their wings so wide

I'm bid to go to the lady's door and stretch out by her side

Lie down, lie down, my good master, here's a blanket to your hand

And I'll waken you in as good a time as any c*** in this land

Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand, he fiddled and he played for a full hour

Until he played him fast asleep; he's off to the lady's bower

And when he came to her chamber door, he twirled softly at the pin

The lady, true to her promise, rose up and let him in

He did not take that lady gay to bolster nor to bed

But down upon the hard cold floor right soon he had her laid

And he did not kiss her when he came nor yet but from her he did go

But in out the lady's bedroom window, the moon like a coal did glow

Ragged are your stockings, love, and stubbly is your cheek and chin

And tousled is that yellow hair that I saw late yesteree'n

These stockings belong to my boy Tom, they were the first came to my hand

The wind must have tousled my yellow hair and I rode over the land

Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand, he fiddled and he played so saucily

He's off back to his master's house as fast as go could he

Wake up, wake up, oh my good master, why snore you there so loud?

There's not a c*** in all this land but has clapped his wings and crowed

Jack O'Rion took the fiddle into his hand and he fiddled and he played so merrily

He's off away to the lady's house as fast as go could he

And when he came to the lady's door, he twirled so softly at the pin

Saying Oh, my dear, it's your true love, rise up and let me in

She said Surely you didn't leave behind a golden brooch nor a velvet glove

Or are you returning back again to taste more of my love?

Jack O'Rion, he swore a bloody oath, by oak, by ash, by bitter thorn

Lady, I never was in your house since the day that I was born

Oh, then it was your young boy Tom that cruelly has beguiled me

Oh woe, that the blood of that ruffian boy did spring in my body

Jack O'Rion sped off to his own house, saying Tom, my boy, come here to me

He hung him from his own gatepost, high as a willow tree


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  (come All Ye) Rolling Minstrels   A Sailor's Life   A Surfeit of Lampreys [Instrumental]   After Hallowe'en   After Halloween   Angel Delight   Autopsy   Ballad of Easy Rider   Big William   Bird On A Wire   Bonny Black Hare   Book Song   Both Sides Now   Bring 'em Down   Bring 'em Down   Cajun Woman   Cajun Woman [*]   Chelsea Morning   Claudy Banks   Close The Door Lightly When You Go   Come All Ye   Crazy Man Michael   Danny Boy   Dark Eyed Molly   Dawn   Decameron   Dirty Linen   Doctor Of Physick   Dream Song   Eastern Rain   Farewell Farewell   Farewell, Farewell   Farewell, Farewell [Fairport Rehearsal Tape]   Farewell, Farewell [Fairport Rehearsal Tape]   Flowers of the Forest   Fotheringay   From Galway to Graceland   Genesis Hall   I Don't Know Where I Stand   I Heard It Through the Grapevine   I Heard It Through the Grapevine [Live]   I Still Miss Someone   I'll Keep It With Mine   I'm Already There   If Stomp   Iron Lion   It'll Take A Long Time   It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft   Jack O'diamonds   Jack O'rion   Jack O'diamonds   John Barleycorn   John Barleycorn [DVD]   John the Gun   Lady Of Pleasure   Let It Go   Like an Old Fashioned Waltz   London Danny   London River   Lord Marlborough   Matty Groves   Meet On The Ledge   Million Dollar Bash   Mr Lacey   Night-time Girl   No Man's Land   No Man's Land   Nottamun Town   Nottamun Town [*]   Nottamun Town [BBC Session]   Now Be Thankful   Now Be Thankful [BBC Sounds of the 70s]   Now Be Thankful [BBC Sounds of the 70s]   Now Be Thankful [Mono Version]   Now Be Thankful [Version]   One More Chance   One More Chance [Studio Version]   One Sure Thing   Over The Next Hill   Part I   Part Ii   Part Iv (the Sailor's Alphabet)   Part Iv (the Sailor's Alphabet)   Part Ix   Part V (john Lee)   Part Vi (breakfast In Mayfair)   Part Vii   Part Viii   Part X   Part Xi (the Hanging Song)   Percy's Song   Pleasure And Pain   Polly On The Shore   Possibly Parsons Green   Red & Gold   Red And Gold   Restless   Reynard The Fox   Reynard the Fox [TV Performance]   Reynard the Fox [TV Performance]   Reynardine   Rising For The Moon   Rising for the Moon [BBC Radio Top Gear Session]   Rising for the Moon [BBC Radio Top Gear Session]   Rising for the Moon [BBC Session]   Rosie   She Moves Through The Fair   She Moves Through the Fair [Troubador, Los Angeles...   Si Tu Dois Partir   Sickness And Diseases   Sir Patrick Spens   Sir William Gower   Sloth   Sloth [Fillmore West]   Sloth [Live]   Solo   Some Sweet Day   Some Sweet Day [*]   Something You Got   Something You Got [*]   Spanish Main   Stranger To Himself   Sun Shade   Tale In Hard Time   Tam Lin   The Ballad Of Easy Rider   The Ballad of Easy Rider [*]   The Banks Of Sweet Primroses   The Bonny Black Hare   The Bonny Bunch Of Roses   The Deserter   The Flowers Of The Forest   The Hexhamshire Lass   The Hiring Fair   The Journeyman's Grace   The Journeyman's Grace   The Lobster   The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood   The Summer Before The War   The Widow Of Westmorland's Daughter   The Widow Of Westmorland's Daughter   Three Drunken Maidens   Time Will Show The Wiser   To Althea From Prison   Tokyo [Instrumental]   Walk Awhile   What Is True?   White Dress   Who knows where the time goes   Who Knows Where The Time Goes?   Who Knows Where the Time Goes? [BBC Radio]   Who Knows Where the Time Goes? [BBC Radio]   Who Knows Where the Time Goes? [Version]   Wizard Of The Worldly Game   Ye Mariners All   You're Gonna Need My Help

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