English Ballads - The Three Ravens | Текст песни

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There were three rauens sat on a tree,
Downe a downe, hay downe, hay downe,
There were three rauens sat on a tree,
With a downe.

There were three rauens sat on a tree,
They were as blacke as they might be,
With a downe derrie, derrie, derrie, downe, downe.

The one of them said to his mate,
"Where shall we our breakefast take?"

"Downe on yonder greene field,
There lies a knight slain under his shield.

"His hounds they lie downe at his feete,
So well they can their master keepe.

"His haukes they flie so eagerly,
There’s no fowle dare him come nie

Downe there comes a fallow doe,
As great with young as she might goe.

She lift up his bloudy hed,
And kist his wounds that were so red.

She got him up to upon her backe,
And carried him to earthen lake.

She buried him before the prime;
She was dead herself ere euen-song time.

God send every gentleman
Such haukes, such hounds, and such a leman.