Outlandish Knight- Vic Legg (Corn) 1993 Howson
[From: Roud Folksong Index (S312057); Morrish, Folk Handbook (2007) pp.228-231 (+ acc. CD)
R. Matteson 2018]
Outlandish Knight- Vic Legg of Bodmin (Cornwall) on (16 Feb) 1993. Collector John Howson.
There was a young man came from the north lands
He came here one day unto me.
He said that he'd take me back to the north lands
And that's where he would marry me, marry me,
And that's where he would marry me.
You get me some of your mother's food
And some of your father's gold,
You take me tonight to your father's stables,
Where nags do stand thirty and three,
Where nags do stand thirty and three.
You take me tonight to your father's stables
Where nags do stand thirty and three."
I got him some of my mother's food,
And some of my father's gold.
I took him that night to my father's stable,
Where nags do stand thirty and three.
"Mount on, mount on, my pretty Polly,
Mount on mount on," cried he.
We rode till we came to the wide river side,
These words then he shouted to me.
"Pull up, pull up, my pretty Polly,
Pull up, pull up," cried he.
"For six pretty maidens I have a-drowned here,
The seventh now you shall be, shall be,
The seventh now you shall be."
"And take me off your fine silk gown,
And give it on over to me.
For it seems such a pity, such a fine gown as that
To be rotted all in the salt sea."
"You turn your back to the facing of me
In viewing those flowers so gay,
For it isn't fitting such a ruffian as you
For a naked young woman to see."
He turned his back to the facing of her,
In viewing those flowers so gay,
She wrapped her arms around his waist
And bundled him in the salt sea, the salt sea,
And bundled him in the salt sea.
"Oh take me out, my pretty Polly,
Oh take me out,