The Queen's Four Marys-Moira Kerr

[ti:The Queen's Four Marys] [ar:Moira Kerr] [al:Bravest Heart] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Queen's Four Marys - Moira Kerr [00:11.80]Word is to the kitchen gone and word is to the hall [00:21.80]And word is up to madam the queen and that's the worst of all [00:32.78]That Mary Hamilton has borne a babe [00:38.54]To the highest stuart of all [00:44.25]Oh rise arise Mary Hamilton [00:49.78]Arise and tell to me [00:54.63]What thou hast done with thy wee babe [01:00.48]I saw and heard weep by thee [01:06.64]I put him in a tiny boat [01:11.48]And cast him out to sea [01:16.36]That he might sink or he might swim [01:22.03]But he'd never come back to me [01:26.90] [01:27.67]Oh rise arise Mary Hamilton [01:32.94]Arise and come with me [01:37.73]There is a wedding in Glasgow town [01:43.39]This night we'll go and see [01:49.03]And as she rode into Glasgow town [01:54.12]The city for to see [01:59.55]The bailiff's wife and the provost's wife [02:04.96]Cried alack and alas for thee [02:10.14]Oh you need not weep for me she cried [02:15.56]You need not week for me [02:18.32] [02:20.45]For had I not slain my own wee babe [02:26.29]This death I would not dee [02:31.88]Last night I washed the queen's feet [02:36.94]Put the gold in her hair [02:41.85]And the only reward I find for this [02:47.49]The gallows to be my share [02:51.75] [03:04.59]Oh little did my mother think [03:09.90]When first she cradled me [03:15.13]The lands I was to travel in [03:20.48]And the death I was to dee [03:26.71]Then by them come the king himself [03:31.14]Looked up with a pitiful eye [03:36.33]Come down come down Mary Hamilton [03:41.85]Tonight you will dine with me [03:47.11]Oh hold your tongue my sovereign liege [03:52.47]And let your folly be [03:57.47]For if you'd a mind to save my life [04:03.17]You'd never have shamed me here [04:08.18]Last night there were four Marys [04:14.17]Tonight there'll be but three [04:19.10]It was Mary Beaton and Mary Seton [04:25.71]And Mary Carmichael and me