Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Two Butchers, artist - Steeleye Span. Album song The Collection - Steeleye Span in Concert, in the genre Фолк-рокDate of issue: 03.05.2009
Record label: Park
Song language: English
Two Butchers |
| It’s of two noble butchers as I have heard men say |
| Started out from London all on a market day |
| And as they were a-riding as fast as they could ride |
| «Oh, stop your horse,» says Johnson, «for I hear some woman cry.» |
| «I will not stop,» says Wilson; |
| «I will not stop,» says he; |
| «I will not stop,» says Wilson, «for robbed we shall be.» |
| Johnson, he got off his horse, searched the woods all 'round |
| And there he spied a woman with her hair pinned to the ground |
| «How came you here, dear woman? |
| How came you here fast bound? |
| How came you here this morning with your hair pinned to the ground?» |
| «They robbed me, they stripped me, they left me here fast bound |
| They left me here this morning with my hair pinned to the ground.» |
| May God keep all good people |
| May God keep all good people |
| May God keep all good people from such bad company |
| Then Johnson, he being a valiant man and a man of courage bold |
| He took his coat from off his back to keep her from the cold |
| And as they were a-riding as fast as they could ride |
| She put a whistle to her mouth and she gave three shivering cries |
| Up jumped three bold and swaggering men with swords all in their hands |
| Who then commanded Johnson, commanded him to stand |
| «I'll stop, I’ll stand,» says Johnson, «as long as I can stand |
| For never was I, in all my life, afraid of any man.» |
| May God keep all good people |
| May God keep all good people |
| May God keep all good people from such bad company |
| Oh, two of them he quickly slew and the third he did not mind |
| Till the false young woman took a knife and stabbed him from behind |
| Poor Johnson he spun round about and he fell down to the ground |
| And he cursed that wretched woman who gave him his death wound |
| Now the day it being a market day, there were people travelling by |
| Who saw the awful murder, who saw poor Johnson die |
| Now Johnson he was a valiant man, and a valiant man was he; |
| May God keep all good people from such bad company |
| May God keep all good people |
| May God keep all good people |
| May God keep all good people from such bad company |