Bitter Withy-Maddy Prior

[ti:Bitter Withy] [ar:Maddy Prior] [al:The Quest] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bitter Withy - Maddy Prior [00:31.77]As I fell out on a bright holiday [00:34.38]Small hail from the sky did fall [00:36.13] [00:36.75]Our saviour asked his mother dear [00:39.36]If he might go and play at ball [00:41.79]At ball at ball my own dear son [00:44.57]It's time that you were gone [00:46.18] [00:46.80]And don't let me hear any mischief [00:48.98] [00:49.56]At night when you come home [00:51.08] [00:51.72]So it's up the hill and down the hill [00:54.38]Our sweet young saviour run [00:55.81] [00:56.90]Until he met three rich young lords [00:59.74]Good morning to each one [01:01.39] [01:02.03]Good morn good morn good morn [01:03.82]Said they good morning then said he [01:05.86] [01:06.90]And which one of you three rich young lords [01:09.61]Will play at the ball with me [01:11.59] [01:23.65]Ah we're all lords and ladies sons [01:26.25]Born in a bower and hall [01:27.85] [01:28.46]And you are nought but a poor maid's child [01:31.53]Born in an ox's stall [01:32.75] [01:33.58]If I am nought but a poor maid's child [01:36.25]Born in a ox's stall [01:37.62] [01:38.65]I'll make you believe at your latter end [01:41.32]I'm an angel above you all [01:42.86] [01:43.61]So he made a bridge of beams of the sun [01:46.54]And over the river ran he [01:48.72]And after him ran these rich young lords [01:51.43]And drowned they all three [01:53.53] [02:15.35]Then it's up the hill and it's down the hill [02:17.78]Three rich young mothers run [02:19.71] [02:20.23]Crying mary mild fetch home her child [02:23.15]For ours he's drowned each one [02:24.72] [02:25.40]So mary mild fetched home her child [02:28.04]And laid him across her knee [02:29.71] [02:30.37]And with a handful of withy twigs [02:32.58] [02:33.32]She gave him lashes three [02:35.55]Ah bitter withy ah bitter withy [02:37.70] [02:38.25]That causes me to smart [02:39.64] [02:40.40]And the withy shall be very first tree [02:42.82] [02:43.33]To perish at the heart