More blasts from the past . . . . Fairport at their very best . . . . . . with the mercurial Sandy Denny
in advance of Halloween . . . . . . . . . . .
Oh, tell to me, Tam Lin, she said, why came you here to dwell?
The Queen of Fairies caught me when from my horse I fell
And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to hell
I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be myself . . . . . . . Then up spoke the Faerie Queen, an angry queen was she
"Woe betide her ill-fought face, an ill death may she die"Oh, had I known, Tam Lin," she said, "what this night I did see
I'd have looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"The Faery ballad dates to at least as early as 1549
reminded by Tribal Gathering