The Two Ravens (Twa Corbies) - Child Ballad 26
Channel: Dan Tappan
Date: 2020-10-30

For Halloween, my arrangement of a creepy 400 year old Scottish Ballad
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The Two Ravens (Twa Corbies) - Child Ballad 26
Traditional

As I was walking all alone
I heard two ravens make a moan
The one unto the other did say-O
Where shall we go and dine today-O
Where shall we go and dine today?

In yonder field, beside the dike
It's there I've seen a new slain knight
There's nobody knows that he lies there-O
But his hawk, his hound and his lady fair-O
But his hawk, his hound and his lady fair

His hawk is to the hunting gone
His hound to fetch the wild fowl home
His lady's taken another man-O
So we can have our dinner sweet-O
So we can have our dinner sweet

You sit on his horse's neck
And from his head his eyes I'll peck
And with a lock of his golden hair-O
We'll mend our nest when it grows bare-O
We'll mend our nest when it grows bare

Nobody knows where he's gone
So nobody knows, for him to mourn
O'er his white bones, when they are bare-O
The wind shall blow for evermore-O
The wind shall blow for evermore