Bonny Bairns

from Ghost by Kate Rusby

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words trad & Kate Rusby, tune Kate Rusby

lyrics

A lady walked in yon wild woods,
Beneath the holly tree,
It was there she spied two bonnie bairns,
There running at her knee.
The first she pulled a red, red rose,
With hands as soft as silk,
The next she pulled a lily pale,
With hands more white than milk.

“Why do you pull the red, red rose,
And why the lily white?”
“We need them at the seat of grace,
For the soul of thee tonight.”
“Oh bide with me you bonnie bairns,
I’ll dress you rich and fine,
And for all the blackbirds in the woods,
You’ll eat white bread and wine.”

The stars were shooting to and fro,
But the thorns she did abhor,
As the lady followed the bonnie bairns,
For three long hours and more.
“Where do you dwell you bonnie bairns,
I’m woe and weary grown”,
“We live where woe it never comes,
In a land to flesh unknown.”

They came unto a tree of beech,
Two names carved in the bark,
“Do you see your name carved here lady,
The other lies in the dark.”
She wept in vain and she wept full sore,
For her love laid in the ground,
She wept until the stars gave way,
And the dawn it brought no sound

credits

from Ghost, released November 7, 2022
Vocal - Kate Rusby
Guitar - Kate Rusby
Double Bass - Duncan Lyall
Electric Guitar - Steven Iveson
Flute - Mike McGoldrick
Violin - Donald Grant
Violin - Rakhi Singh
Cello - Ben Trigg
Viola -Triona Milne

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Kate Rusby England, UK

Forever proud to call herself a folk singer, Kate celebrates her own 50 yrs with her 'Established 1973' tours.

2022 marked 30 yrs as a professional musician with the album 30:Happy Returns

Hand Me Down (2020) was her highest-charting album.

Named in the Top 10 Folk Voices of the Century and a Mercury Prize in 1999

Yorkshire roots the carols in her Christmas tour.
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