Steeleye Span - Little Sir Hugh lyrics
[Steeleye Span - Little Sir Hugh lyrics]
Mother mother make my bed
Make for me a winding sheet
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
See if I can sleep
Four and twenty bonny bonny boys
Playing at the hall
Along came little Sir Hugh
He played with them all
He kicked the ball very high
He kicked the ball so low
He kicked it over a castle wall
Where no one dared to go
Out came a lady gay, she was dressed in green
"Come in, come in little Sir Hugh
Fetch your ball again" "I won't come in
I can't come in without my play mates all
For if I should I know you
Would cause my blood to fall"
Mother mother make my bed
Make for me a winding sheet
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
See if I can sleep
She took him by the milk white hand
Led him to the hall
Till they came to a stone chamber where
No one could hear him call
She sat him on a golden chair
She gave him sugar sweet
She lay him on a dressing board
And stabbed him like a sheep
Out came the thick thick blood
Out came the thin
Out came the bonny heart's blood
Till there was none within
She took him by the yellow hair
And also by the feet
She threw him in the old
Draw well fifty fathoms deep
Make for me a winding sheet
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
See if I can sleep
Four and twenty bonny bonny boys
Playing at the hall
Along came little Sir Hugh
He played with them all
He kicked the ball very high
He kicked the ball so low
He kicked it over a castle wall
Where no one dared to go
Out came a lady gay, she was dressed in green
"Come in, come in little Sir Hugh
Fetch your ball again" "I won't come in
I can't come in without my play mates all
For if I should I know you
Would cause my blood to fall"
Mother mother make my bed
Make for me a winding sheet
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
See if I can sleep
She took him by the milk white hand
Led him to the hall
Till they came to a stone chamber where
No one could hear him call
She sat him on a golden chair
She gave him sugar sweet
She lay him on a dressing board
And stabbed him like a sheep
Out came the thick thick blood
Out came the thin
Out came the bonny heart's blood
Till there was none within
She took him by the yellow hair
And also by the feet
She threw him in the old
Draw well fifty fathoms deep