Tricky Pixie - Tam Lin

refrain: I forbid ye maidens all who let fly your lovely hair to go down to Carterhaugh for young Tam Lin is there Janet tied her kirtle green above her knee and not below and she’s gone to carterhaugh just as fast as she can go She’s come to the roses growing wild she’s pulled a single one when a wild young man appears and cries ’O, lady, let alone! ’How dare you pull my roses out, How dare you break my tree How dare you run in these green woods Without asking leave of me?’ Says Janet fair ’this wood’s my own My father gave it me And I can pluck myself a rose Without asking leave of thee.’ Bold as brass, he takes her hand and color rises to her skin She looks the young man in the eye and knows him now for young Tam Lin. **refrain** Janet holds her petticoats well above her dirty knee and she’s gone to her father’s hall just as fast as she can hie.