A wager with you my pretty fair maid
Five hundred pounds to your ten
A maid you will go to the merry green broom
And a maid you'll no longer return-o
A wager, a wager with you kind sir
Five hundred pounds to my ten
A maid I will go to the merry green broom
And a maid I will boldly return-o
The maiden she sat in her bower alone
She is in torment and strife
If I don't go to the Broomfield this night
My love he won't make me his wife-o
So up and she goes on her good white steed
Away for her young man to meet
She found him lain there and all fast asleep
With a blood red rose at his feet-o
She's kissed him twice on cheek and on chin
Then over his body did lean
There she did place five rings on his chest
Just so he would know she had been-o
Then off through the woods the young maid did go
Just when her love did arise
He saw the five rings laid there on his chest
On his face was nought but surprise-o
A wager with you my pretty fair maid
Five hundred pounds to your ten
A maid you will go to the merry green broom
And a maid you'll no longer return-o
A wager, a wager with you kind sir
Five hundred pounds to my ten
A maid I will go to the merry green broom
And a maid I will boldly return-o
The lyrics MERRY GREEN BROOM of KATE RUSBY is also present in the album Little lights (2001)
Kate Anna Rusby (nata il 4 dicembre 1973 a Sheffield, Inghilterra) è una cantautrice e musicista folk inglese originaria di Penistone, South Yorkshire. Spesso soprannominata "The Barnsley Nightingale", ha intrapreso tour in tutta l'Inghilterra e si è esibita in numerosi festival folk nazionali britannici. Considerata una delle più famose cantanti folk inglesi contemporanee, nel 2001 The Guardian l'ha definita "una superstar della scena acustica britannica". Nel 2007 il sito web della BBC l'ha descritta come "la prima dama dei giovani folkies". Rusby è una delle poche cantanti folk nominate per il Mercury Prize. Tra i suoi brani più rappresentativi si ricordano "Underneath the Stars", "The Lark in the Morning" e "Heigh Ho, An Old Man's Gone".
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