Lord Robert- Minnie Payne (Newfoundland) 1930 from Ballads and Sea-Songs of Newfoundland By Elizabeth Bristol Greenleaf, Grace Yarrow Mansfield
LORD ROBERT- Communicated by Mrs. Maud Roberts Simmonds; Glenburnie, Bonne Bay, 1930, from the singing of Miss Minnie Payne.
1. "Are you asleep or awake Lord Robert," he cried,
"Or is you yet at home?
Arise and take care of your yongest brother,
For the oldest must coem along with me."
2. "Arise, arise you seven sons,
And buckle on your armour so bright,
For it never sahll be said that a daughter of mine,
Shall get married to a lord, duke or knight.
3. When she saw her seven brothers fall,
For none of them she ever shed a tear;
But when she saw her old father fall,
It was her father that she loved so dear.
4. "Gerehan, O Gerehan, Lord Robert," she cried,
Your blows are wonderful sore;
For a sweetheart I might have anymore,
A father I will never have no more."
5. "Are you going along with me ?" Lord Robert he cried,
"O will you tarry at home?"
"I will go along with you," Lady Margaret she cried,
You have leaved me no other guide."
6. He mounted on the lily-white steed,
And led the deeper gray;
He sounded up his bugle horn,
And loud he did play
As he went bleeding along the highway.
7. He rode till he came to his mother's bower-gate,
He knocked and rang saying:
"Open the bower-gate mother," he cried,
"For my dear lady I have win."
8. "Make my bed so soft and fine,
And stick it round with roses red.
Lay Lady Margaret down by my side,
And the sounder I will sleep."
9. Lady Margaret she died at eight o'clock
Lord Robert he died before day.
I hope ever loving couple ever meet together,
Have more joy and comfort than they.