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Tam Lin

from Folk​-​Lore by Xisco Rojo

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Oh I forbid you maidens all
That wear gold in your hair
To come or go by Carterhall
For young Tam Lin is there.

Tam Lin went awalking one bright morning
Across the hills so green
And he cared nothing for where he'd go
Nor nothing for where he'd been

And he's passed over the little foot bridge
And down to Carterhall
Witrh steps so wide he passes by
You'd think he owned it all

So swiftly did the waters flow
As he came down beside
And you must go and greet him there
For now's no time to hide

Oh I forbid you maidens all
Who wear gold in your hair
To come or go by Carterhall
For young Tam Lin is there

As he stood so still by the church yard wall
He spied his lady fair
And they surely knew that they must live
And love without a care

Oh pleasant is the fairy land
But an eerie tale to tell
But at the end of seven years
We pay a tithe to hell
I am so young and fair of face
I'm feared it will be myself

She had not pulled a double rose
A rose but only two
When up then started young Tam Lin
Says "think what you mean to do"

Oh Why you pull the rose, Janet
Among the groves so green?
You must not kill the bonny babe
That we got us between

Up spoke the queen of the fairy land
And an angry woman was she
She's taken away the bonniest knight
In all my company

And adieu Tam Lin, but had I known
The secrets in your mind
I would have picked out your two fine eyes
And left you beggar blind

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from Folk​-​Lore, released June 29, 2023
Xisco Rojo: Voice, hurdy-gurdy, Greek baglamas, 6-string parlor acoustic
guitar, 6-string electric guitar, piano, English horn, French oboe, bagpipe, viola, shamam drums

Eloy Platas ‘Lume’: Tambourine & shells
Alondra Bentley: Fairy choir

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Xisco Rojo Madrid, Spain

Xisco Rojo is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who creates a music halfway between chamber folk, primitivism, sound art and experimentation.
hola@xiscorojo.com

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