[00:15.84]Jack Orion was the finest fiddler ever fiddled on the string
[00:28.41]He could drive young ladies wild with a tune his wires would sing
[00:44.55]He could fiddle the fish out of salt water
[00:54.12]Water from a marble stone
[00:59.16]Or milk from out a maiden's breast though baby she had none
[01:24.42]There he played in the castle hall and there he played them fast asleep
[01:39.69]Except it was for the young countess who
[01:48.06]For love
[01:54.99]She stayed awake
[01:56.01]So first he played her a slow air
[02:04.92]And then he played it brisk and gay
[02:07.74]And oh
[02:15.18]Dear love
[02:18.36]Behind her glove
[02:19.83]This lady she did say
[02:31.77]Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed
[02:39.54]And flapped their wings so wide
[02:48.87]It's you must come to my chamber there
[03:17.88]And lie down by my side
[03:34.26]So he wrapped his fiddle in a cloth of green
[03:41.22]And he stole out on his a tip a toe
[03:48.42]And he's off back to his young boy
[03:54.12]Tom as fast as he could go
[03:56.82]Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed
[04:11.37]And flapped their wings so wide
[04:15.96]I'm bid to go to the lady's door
[04:25.29]And stretch out by her side
[04:31.65]Lie down
[04:33.99]Lie down
[04:36.54]My good master
[04:41.55]Here's a blanket to your hand
[04:45.96]And I'll waken you in as good a time as any cock in this land
[04:52.11]Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand
[04:56.73]He fiddled and he played for a full hour
[05:12.27]Until he played him fast asleep
[05:18.63]He's off to the lady's bower
[05:24.48]And when he came to her chamber door
[05:52.62]He twirled softly at the pin
[06:16.77]The lady
[06:17.91]True to her promise
[06:28.05]Rose up and let him in
[06:46.80]He did not take that lady gay to bolster nor to bed
[07:13.41]But down upon the hard cold floor right soon he had her laid
[07:58.29]And he did not kiss her when he came nor yet
[08:04.77]But from her he did go
[08:08.64]But in out the lady's bedroom window
[08:15.06]The moon like a coal did glow
[08:23.97]Ragged are your stockings
[08:30.06]Love
[08:35.61]And stubbly is your cheek and chin
[08:43.79]And tousled is that yellow hair that I saw yestereve
[08:56.43]These stockings belong to my boy Tom
[08:59.94]They were the first came to my hand
[09:05.01]The wind must have tousled my yellow hair and I rode over the land
[09:17.13]Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand
[09:21.06]He fiddled and he played so saucily
[09:25.68]He's off back to his master's house as fast as go could he
[09:35.88]Wake up
[09:36.93]Wake up
[09:38.16]Oh my good master
[09:41.58]Why snore you there so loud
[09:45.81]There's not a cock in all this land
[09:51.54]But has clapped his wings and crowed
[09:57.00]Jack Orion took the fiddle into his hand
[10:00.84]And he fiddled and he played so merrily
[10:07.11]He's off away to the lady's house as fast as go could he
[10:16.44]And when he came to the lady's door
[10:21.78]He twirled so softly at the pin
[10:29.55]Saying Oh
[10:37.41]My dear
[10:44.01]It's your true love
[16:02.64]Rise up and let me in
[16:09.36]She said Surely you didn't leave
[16:13.50]Behind a golden brooch nor a velvet glove
[16:26.94]Or are you returning back again to taste more of my love
[16:43.41]Jack Orion
[16:44.25]He swore a bloody oath
[16:47.22]By oak
[16:47.97]By ash
[16:49.02]By bitter thorn
[16:53.34]Lady
[16:54.51]I never was in your house since the day that I was born
[17:06.48]Oh
[17:14.13]Then it was your young boy Tom that cruelly has beguiled me
[17:19.56]Oh woe
[17:24.78]That the blood of that ruffian boy did spring in my body
[17:46.86]Jack Orion sped off to his own house
[17:50.76]Saying
[17:51.69]Tom
[17:52.65]My boy
[17:54.51]Come here to me
[18:01.74]He hung him from his own gatepost
[18:17.91]High as a willow tree