
Date of issue: 30.09.2020
Record label: Biloba Jazz
Song language: English
Mary Hamilton (Child No. 173) |
Word is to the kitchen gone, and word is to the Hall |
And word is up to Madam the Queen, and that’s the worst of all |
That Mary Hamilton has borne a babe |
To the highest Stuart of all |
Oh rise, arise Mary Hamilton |
Arise and tell to me What thou hast done with thy wee babe |
I saw and heard weep by thee |
I put him in a tiny boat |
And cast him out to sea |
That he might sink or he might swim |
But he’d never come back to me Oh rise arise Mary Hamilton |
Arise and come with me There is a wedding in Glasgow town |
This night we’ll go and see |
She put not on her robes of black |
Nor her robes of brown |
But she put on her robes of white |
To ride into Glasgow town |
And as she rode into Glasgow town |
The city for to see |
The bailiff’s wife and the provost’s wife |
Cried Alack and alas for thee |
You need not weep for me she cried |
You need not week for me For had I not slain my own wee babe |
This death I would not dee |
Oh little did my mother think |
When first she cradled me The lands I was to travel in And the death I was to dee |
Last night I washed the Queen’s feet |
And put the gold in her hair |
And the only reward I find for this |
The gallows to be my share |
Cast off cast off my gown she cried |
But let my petticoat be And tie a napkin round my face |
The gallows I would not see |
Then by them come the king himself |
Looked up with a pitiful eye |
Come down come down Mary Hamillton |
Tonight you will dine with me Oh hold your tongue my sovereign liege |
And let your folly be For if you’d a mind to save my life |
You’d never have shamed me here |
Last night there were four marys |
tonight there’ll be but three |
It was Mary Beaton and Mary Seton |
And Mary Carmichael and me. |
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