[ti:Willie O'Winsbury] [ar:Meg Baird] [al:Dear Companion] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Willie O'Winsbury - Meg Baird [00:26.45]"Daughter oh daughter" said the king [00:32.88]"Why're you so pale and wan [00:38.98]I fear you have some sore sickness [00:46.29]Or else you have laid with a man" [00:52.10]"You're welcome you're welcome my father dear [00:59.04]You are welcome home to me [01:05.04]For I have sick unto my heart [01:12.10]Since you've been so long on the sea" [01:18.16]"Cast off cast off your berry-brown gown; [01:24.85]Stand naked upon the stone [01:31.10]That I might know you by your shape [01:38.10]Whether you be a maiden or no" [01:44.12]So she's cast off her berry-brown gown; [01:51.05]She's stood naked upon the stone [01:57.24]Her apron was low and her middle was round [02:04.30]Her face was pale and wan [02:10.24]"Oh was it with a lord or a duke or a knight [02:17.05]Or a man of birth and fame [02:23.12]Or was it with one of my serving men [02:30.34]That's lately come out of Spain" [02:36.32]"No it wasn't with a lord nor a duke nor a knight [02:43.03]Nor a man of birth and fame [02:49.18]But it was with Willie O'Winsbury; [02:56.24]I could bide no longer alone" [03:02.49]The king he has sent for his merry men all [03:09.31]By thirty and by three [03:15.18]Saying"Fetch me this Willie O'Winsbury [03:22.32]For hanged he shall be" [03:28.51]But when he was brought before the king [03:35.51]He was clad all in red silk [03:41.63]His hair was like the strands of gold [03:48.84]His skin was white as milk [03:54.77]"It is no wonder" said the king [04:01.59]"How my daughter's love you did win [04:07.46]For if I was a woman as I am a man [04:14.90]My bedfellow you would have been [04:20.96]"Will you marry my daughter Janet [04:27.58]By the truth of your right hand [04:33.96]And if you'll marry my daughter Janet [04:40.65]I will make you the lord of my lands" [04:46.77]"Yes I will marry your daughter Janet [04:53.77]By the truth of my right hand [04:59.65]But I'll not have your gold and I'll not have your gear [05:07.09]And I'll not be the lord of your land [05:12.90]"For I have houses and I have land [05:19.90]I have men at my command [05:26.00]And were it not for your daughter fair [05:33.00]I would not be your servant man" [05:39.30]He sat her upon a milk white steed [05:46.12]And himself on a dapple gray; [05:52.24]He has made her the lady of as much land [05:59.12]As she can ride in a long summer's day