Bonny Lass Of Anglesey-Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick

[ti:Bonny Lass Of Anglesey] [ar:Martin Carthy] [al:Crown of Horn] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bonny Lass Of Anglesey - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick [00:22.69]There he sits and there he stands [00:25.06]Alone and oh what a frightened king is he [00:28.02]Fifteen lords have all come down [00:30.51]To dance and gain the victory [00:32.39] [00:43.69]Our king he keeps a good treasure [00:46.42]And he keeps it locked with a silver key [00:49.27]But fifteen lords have all come down [00:51.84]To dance his gold and his lands away [00:53.81] [01:00.26]There he stands at the castle high [01:02.59]And oh so loud so loud I heard him cry: [01:05.48]"Go saddle your horse and bring to me [01:08.02]The bonny lass of Anglesey " [01:10.53] [01:13.29]Some rode North and some rode South [01:15.52]There was some to the East they rode straightway [01:18.47]Spied her there on the mountain high [01:21.14]The bonny lass of Anglesey [01:23.05] [01:45.02]Up she starts as white as the milk [01:47.08]Between the king and all of his company [01:49.64] [01:50.27]Cries "What is the price I have to ask [01:52.96]If I do gain the victory " [01:54.87] [02:01.33]"Fifteen ploughs a house and a mill [02:03.64]I will give to thee till the day thou dies [02:06.67]The fairest knight in all my court [02:09.11]To take your husband for to be " [02:11.11] [02:14.36]"Fifteen ploughs a house and a mill [02:16.64]Come now that's no prize for the victory [02:18.96] [02:19.61]And there's no knight in all your court [02:22.16]That shall have me as a wife to be " [02:24.45] [02:35.48]Up she starts as white as the milk; [02:37.85]She danced light as a leaf on the broken sea [02:40.69]Till fifteen lords all cried aloud [02:42.78] [02:43.31]For the bonny lass of Anglesey [02:45.24] [02:48.57]She's taken fifteen one by one [02:50.77]Saying "Sweet kind sir will you dance with me " [02:53.90]But e'er it's ten o'clock o' the night [02:56.42]They gave it o'er right shamefully [02:58.62] [03:09.51]But up and rose the fifteenth knight [03:11.90]And oh what an angry man was he; [03:14.73]He laid aside his buckler and sword [03:17.50]Before he strode so manfully [03:19.38] [03:25.67]And he's danced high and he's danced low [03:28.03]And he has danced the livelong day [03:30.53]He said "My feet shall be my death [03:33.53]E'er she gains the victory " [03:35.43] [03:38.73]"Oh my feet shall be my death [03:41.00]E'er this lass do gain the victory " [03:43.43] [03:44.06]But e'er it's ten o'clock o' the morn [03:46.61]He gave it o'er right shamefully [03:48.67] [04:10.27]She's taken the king all by the hand [04:12.17] [04:12.78]Saying "Sweet kind sir will you walk with me " [04:15.86]But e'er the king has gone one step [04:18.29]She's danced his gold and his land away [04:20.31] [04:23.11]Saying "Fifteen ploughs a house and a mill [04:25.73]Come now that's no price for the victory " [04:28.58]And away she's gone with his treasure [04:31.19]The bonny lass of Anglesey [04:33.02] [04:36.03]She's taken all their bucklers swords [04:38.75]She's taken all their gold and their bright money [04:41.48]And back to the mountain she's away [04:44.12]The bonny lass of Anglesey [04:47.09] [04:56.99]There's fifteen lords come a-swaggering down [04:58.97] [04:59.51]For to dance and gain the victory [05:02.29]But fifteen lords and one high king [05:04.94]Go all ragged and bare today