Allison Gross Lyrics

Allison Gross lyrics

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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