The Earl of Aboyne-June Tabor

[00:00.00]The Earl of Aboyne -June Tabor [00:13.702]The earl of aboyne to london [00:16.748]Has gone and [00:17.814]All his nobles [00:19.662]With him [00:21.352]Sad was the heart [00:22.771]Of his lady fair because she [00:25.601]Could not go with him [00:27.933]The earl of aboyne to london [00:30.629]Has gone and [00:31.758]All his nobles [00:33.647]With him [00:35.181]Better he had stayed at home [00:38.395]Or taken his lady [00:40.226]With him [00:41.927]And as she walked out upon [00:44.151]The green among the [00:46.550]Gentlewomen [00:48.958]Sad was the letter that came to her [00:51.617]Hand that [00:52.386]Her lord was wed in london [00:55.843]And as she looked o'er [00:57.927]The castle wall she saw [01:00.28]Two boys a running [01:02.690]What news what news my bonny [01:05.378]Little boys what news [01:07.127]Have you of london [01:09.628]Good news good news my lady [01:12.764]Gay for the [01:13.722]Earl of aboyne [01:14.992]Is coming [01:16.752]And ere he's within two miles [01:19.300]Of your walls you [01:20.571]Hear his bridles ringing [01:23.771]My groom's all be well [01:26.380]In call and happy [01:28.141]Days they are shining [01:30.795]Gone are days spent [01:32.941]On the stays since the [01:34.733]Lord of aboyne is coming [01:37.842]And my mate's all be well in call [01:41.511]And happier [01:42.590]Flowers are shining [01:44.967]And cover the stair [01:46.588]With herbs sweet and fair and [01:48.477]The floors with the [01:49.693]Finest linen [01:51.894]And deck my body [01:53.690]In the finest [01:54.796]Array and my [01:55.762]Hood of the brightest linen [01:58.807]And my apron shall be of the good silk cloth [02:02.161]Since the earl of aboyne is coming [02:05.837]So stately she stepped [02:08.51]Down the stair to see if [02:10.588]He was coming [02:12.837]And her gown was of the good [02:15.477]Green silk trimmed [02:16.712]With her red silk trimming [02:19.826]She's called to kate her waiting [02:22.786]Maid and jean her [02:24.616]Gentl ewoman [02:26.887]Come fetch me a glass of [02:28.805]The very best wine [02:30.343]To drink his health he's coming [03:02.415]She gone out to the close [03:04.82]To her lord says [03:05.849]Him welcome for your coming [03:09.285]She gone out to the close [03:11.95]To her lord says [03:12.981]Him thrice welcome from [03:15.74]London [03:16.506]If I be of this welcome [03:18.933]As you say [03:19.824]Then kiss me for my coming [03:23.316]For tomorrow should have been [03:25.146]My wedding day if I'd [03:27.132]Stayed any longer in london [03:30.212]She turned the around [03:31.986]With a look of distaste [03:33.690]Says woe's me for your coming [03:37.264]Since tomorrow should have been [03:38.994]Your wedding day then go [03:41.161]Kiss your w in london [03:44.308]My nobles all come mount [03:47.04]Your steed I'm sorry for [03:49.591]My coming [03:51.543]Tonight we shall [03:52.735]Lie at the bonny bogie's [03:54.401]Side since [03:54.948]Tomorrow the course is to london [03:58.451]Tom my man run after him [04:02.193]And beg him [04:03.64]To take me with him [04:05.311]I've asked him once and [04:07.303]I've asked him the [04:08.375]More and it's never [04:09.726]A mile you'll ride with him [04:12.216]Then a year and a day she lived in woe [04:15.796]And the doctors [04:17.73]They were dealing [04:19.384]Until at last her heart [04:21.948]It broke and letters were [04:24.150]Sent to london [04:26.239]When he saw the letters [04:28.200]All edged in black [04:29.664]He's bound to grievest weeping [04:33.494]She is dead that I loved most and I [04:37.181]Had but a heart in keeping [04:40.289]There were fifteen of noblest [04:43.275]Lords that london could provide [04:46.383]Him [04:47.243]From their hose to their [04:48.697]Hat they were all dressed [04:50.146]In black to mourn for [04:52.162]Bonny peggy irvine [04:54.383]And the farther he rode [04:56.404]The sorer he wept for [04:58.120]He had but a heart in keeping [05:01.358]Sooner I had lost [05:03.63]All the lands of aboyne [05:05.644]Than my bonnie peggy irvine