Little Margaret

歌詞

Little Margaret sitting in her high hall chair A-combing her long yellow hair She saw Lord William and his new-made bride Riding down the road so near She threw down her ivory comb She threw back her long yellow hair And out of the room this lady ran She was never anymore seen there It was all lately in the night When they were fast asleep Little Margaret appeared all dressed in white A-standing at their bed-feet It's how do you like your snow white pillow And how do you like your sheets And how do you like the new-made bride That's lying in your arms asleep? It's fine I like my snow white pillow And it's well I like my sheets But best of all's the fair young maid That's standing at my bed feet He's called the servant for to go And saddle the dappled roan He's rode to Little Margaret's house that night And knocked on the door alone Oh is Little Margaret in the house Or is she in the hall? Little Margaret's in her coal-black coffin With her face turned towards the wall Fold back, fold back those ivory shrouds Be they ever so fine I want to kiss those clay-cold lips They'll never anymore kiss mine It's once he's kissed her snow-white brow And twice he's kissed her cheeks Three times he's kissed her clay-cold lips And he fell in her arms asleep