Kate MacLeod - The Child Ballad (another version of The False Knight Upon the Road) - Constant Emotion, 1997 | Текст песни

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• Kate MacLeod
• The Child Ballad (another version of The False Knight Upon the Road) - Constant Emotion, 1997

What brings you here so late? said the knight on the road
I go to meet my God said the child as she stood
And she stood and she stood
right there well she stood
I go to meet my God said the child on the road.

How will you go by sea? said the knight on the road
with a strong boat under me said the child as she stood
And she stood and she stood
right there well she stood
With a strong boat under me said the child on the road.

How will you go by land? said the knight on the road
With a strong staff in my hand said the child as she stood
And she stood and she stood
Right there well she stood
With a strong staff in my hand said the child on the road.

Me think I hear a bell said the child on the road
It is ringing you to hell said the child as she stood
And she stood and she stood
Right there well she stood
I go to meet my God said the child on the road.

This song goes by other titles including: 'Fause Knight upon the Road' and 'The Devil and the Schoolchild'. Collected in Scotland from a young miner boy by Alan Lomax. Also collected in Appalachia, the Canadian maritimes, Ireland, and northeastern U.S. An early printing can be found in Motherwell's Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, 1827.