Murder of Maria Marten

Song Murder of Maria Marten
Artist Shirley Collins
Album No Roses

Lyrics

[00:00.00] 作词 : Traditional
[00:00.584]
[00:43.633] “If you'll meet me at the Red Barn
[00:48.143] As sure as I have life
[00:51.596] I will take you to Ipswich Town
[00:55.196] And there make you my wife.”
[00:58.685] He straight went home and fetched his gun,
[01:03.144] His pick-axe and his spade.
[01:06.583] He went unto the Red Barn
[01:10.261] And there he dug her grave.
[01:54.649] Come all you thoughtless young men,
[02:01.432] A warning take by me
[02:05.025] To think on my unhappy fate
[02:09.224] To be hanged upon a tree.
[02:14.340] My name is William Corder,
[02:19.534] To you I do declare
[02:23.074] I courted Maria Marten,
[02:26.856] Most beautiful and fair.
[02:32.600] I promised I would marry her
[02:37.363] Upon a certain day;
[02:40.934] Instead of that I was resolved
[02:45.229] To take her life away.
[03:08.374] I went unto her father's house
[03:12.607] The eighteenth day of May
[03:15.849] And said, “My dear Maria,
[03:19.385] We will fix a wedding day.”
[03:22.938] With her heart so light she thought no harm
[03:26.764] To meet me she did go.
[03:30.158] I murdered her all in the barn
[03:33.914] And laid her body low.
[03:37.312] After the horrid deed was done
[03:41.104] She laid there in her gore
[03:44.498] Her bleeding, mangled body lay
[03:48.301] Beneath the Red Barn floor.
[04:05.842] Now all things being silent
[04:09.501] Her spirit could not rest.
[04:12.901] She appeared unto her mother
[04:16.562] Who'd suckled her at her breast.
[04:19.992] For many a long month or more
[04:23.915] Her mind being sore oppressed,
[04:27.193] Neither at night nor yet by day
[04:31.046] Could she take any rest.
[04:34.253] Her mother's mind being so disturbed
[04:38.729] She dreamed it three nights o'er,
[04:42.123] Her daughter she lay murdered
[04:45.796] Beneath the Red Barn floor.
[04:49.407] She sent the father to the Barn
[04:53.598] Where he the ground did thrust
[04:57.157] And there he found his daughter
[05:00.881] Lay mingling with the dust
[05:18.521] My trial was hard, I could not stand,
[05:22.376] Most woeful was the sight
[05:25.676] When her dear bones was brought to prove
[05:29.531] Which pierced my heart quite.
[05:32.866] Her aged father standing by,
[05:36.552] Likewise his loving wife,
[05:39.875] And in her grief her hair she tore
[05:43.577] She scarcely could keep life.
[05:55.001] Adieu adieu, my loving friends,
[06:01.156] My glass is almost run.
[06:05.035] On Monday next will be my last
[06:09.278] When I am to be hung.
[06:14.959] So all young men who do pass by
[06:19.971] With pity look on me
[06:23.675] For murdering of that young girl
[06:27.848] I was hung upon a tree.

Pinyin

[00:00.00] zuò cí : Traditional
[00:00.584]
[00:43.633] " If you' ll meet me at the Red Barn
[00:48.143] As sure as I have life
[00:51.596] I will take you to Ipswich Town
[00:55.196] And there make you my wife."
[00:58.685] He straight went home and fetched his gun,
[01:03.144] His pickaxe and his spade.
[01:06.583] He went unto the Red Barn
[01:10.261] And there he dug her grave.
[01:54.649] Come all you thoughtless young men,
[02:01.432] A warning take by me
[02:05.025] To think on my unhappy fate
[02:09.224] To be hanged upon a tree.
[02:14.340] My name is William Corder,
[02:19.534] To you I do declare
[02:23.074] I courted Maria Marten,
[02:26.856] Most beautiful and fair.
[02:32.600] I promised I would marry her
[02:37.363] Upon a certain day
[02:40.934] Instead of that I was resolved
[02:45.229] To take her life away.
[03:08.374] I went unto her father' s house
[03:12.607] The eighteenth day of May
[03:15.849] And said, " My dear Maria,
[03:19.385] We will fix a wedding day."
[03:22.938] With her heart so light she thought no harm
[03:26.764] To meet me she did go.
[03:30.158] I murdered her all in the barn
[03:33.914] And laid her body low.
[03:37.312] After the horrid deed was done
[03:41.104] She laid there in her gore
[03:44.498] Her bleeding, mangled body lay
[03:48.301] Beneath the Red Barn floor.
[04:05.842] Now all things being silent
[04:09.501] Her spirit could not rest.
[04:12.901] She appeared unto her mother
[04:16.562] Who' d suckled her at her breast.
[04:19.992] For many a long month or more
[04:23.915] Her mind being sore oppressed,
[04:27.193] Neither at night nor yet by day
[04:31.046] Could she take any rest.
[04:34.253] Her mother' s mind being so disturbed
[04:38.729] She dreamed it three nights o' er,
[04:42.123] Her daughter she lay murdered
[04:45.796] Beneath the Red Barn floor.
[04:49.407] She sent the father to the Barn
[04:53.598] Where he the ground did thrust
[04:57.157] And there he found his daughter
[05:00.881] Lay mingling with the dust
[05:18.521] My trial was hard, I could not stand,
[05:22.376] Most woeful was the sight
[05:25.676] When her dear bones was brought to prove
[05:29.531] Which pierced my heart quite.
[05:32.866] Her aged father standing by,
[05:36.552] Likewise his loving wife,
[05:39.875] And in her grief her hair she tore
[05:43.577] She scarcely could keep life.
[05:55.001] Adieu adieu, my loving friends,
[06:01.156] My glass is almost run.
[06:05.035] On Monday next will be my last
[06:09.278] When I am to be hung.
[06:14.959] So all young men who do pass by
[06:19.971] With pity look on me
[06:23.675] For murdering of that young girl
[06:27.848] I was hung upon a tree.