Bella Hardy - The Seventh Girl Lyrics
An outlandish knight came from the north landsAnd he scarcely could leave me aloneAnd he promised he take me the wide world to seeOh fly home lost ladies, fly homeHe said “Come fetch to me some of your father's bright goldFetch me some of your mother's own feeAnd come fetch me the best nags from out of your yardWhere they stand full thirty and threeWhere they stand full thirty and three”She's mounted onto her silver-white horseAnd he's mounted her father's strong greyAnd they've rode till they've come to the rocky sea shoreThree dark hours before it was day“Oh light off, light off your silver-white horseAnd deliver yourself unto meFor six pretty girls have I drowned right hereAnd the seventh girl you now shall beOh the seventh girl you now shall be”“Pull off, pull off your soft silken gownAnd deliver it here unto meFor the fabric's too fine and too costly by farTo let rot in the cold briny seaAnd pull off, pull off your good holland smockAnd deliver it here unto meFor it seems like a waste to let such clothes be lostWhile the fishes they nibble at theeWhile the fishes they nibble at thee”“Well if I must strip down full ***** and bareCut the thorn that grows there by the brimOr else it might catch in my curly gold hairAnd tear my glittering skin”Well he's taken his knife and he's turned to the thornThat grows by the salt water's brimBut so speedy she's run and she's pushed him so hardThat she's thrown this false young man inTo the foam she's fast thrown him inHe's tumbled up high and he's tumbled down lowTill he's come to the rocky sea side, crying“Catch hold of my hand, my pretty fair ladyAnd I will make you my bride”“Oh lie there, lie there, you false hearted manMake your bed in the deep briny blueFor six pretty girls have you drowned right hereBut the seventh girl has drowned youOh the seventh girl has drowned you”
