Unknown - Allison Gross lyrics

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ALLISON GROSS

Oh, Allison Gross, that lives in yon tower

The ugliest witch in the north country

Has trysted me one day up in her bower

And many fair speech she made to me

She stroked my head and she combed my hair

And she set me down softly on her knee

Says, "Gin ye will be my leman so true

Sae many braw things as I would ye gi'"

She showed me a mantle of red scarlet

With golden flowers and fringes fine

Says, "Gin ye will be my leman so true

This goodly gift it shall be thine"

"Away, away, you ugly witch

Hold far away and let me be

I never will be your leman so true

And I wish I were out of your company"

She next brought me a sark of the softest silk

Well wrought with pearls about the band

Says, "Gin ye will be my ain true love

This goodly gift you shall command"

She showed me a cup of the good red gold

Well set with jewels so fair to see

Says, "Gin ye will be my leman sae true

This goodly gift I will ye gi'"

"Away, away, you ugly witch

Hold far away and let me be

For I wouldna aince kiss your ugly mouth

For all the gifts that you could gi'"

She's turned her right and round about

And thrice she blew on a grass-green horn

And she swore by the moon and the stars abeen

That she would gar me rue the day I was born

Then out she has taken a silver wand

And she's turned her three times round and round

She's muttered such words till my strength it failed

And I fell down senseless upon the ground

She's turned me into an ugly worm

And gard me toddle around the tree

And aye, on ilka Saturday night

My sister Maisry came to me

.pa

With silver basin and silver comb

To comb my head upon her knee

Before I had kissed her ugly mouth

I'd rather have toddled about the tree

But as it fell out on last Halloween

When the seely court was riding by

The queen lighted down on a rowan bank

Not far frae the tree where I wont to lie

She took me up in her milk white hand

And she's stroked me three times on her knee

She changed me again to my ain proper shape

And I nae more maun toddle about the tree

Child #35

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