King Willie sailed over the raging foam
His widow wife had as brought her home
He would have fought her long golden years
His mother wrought her a mighty care
A weary spell she's laid on her
She'd be with child for long and many's the year
But a child she would never bear
And in her power she lies in pain
King Willie had to bear that he just turned
As down his cheeks salt and tears do run
King Willie back to his mother he did run
And he's gone there as a begging son Says
me true love has this fine noble steed
The lack of which you'll ne'er have to
see At every port of this horse's mane
The sang a fifty silver bells and ten The sang a fifty bells and ten
This goodly gift shall be your own Give
back to me your true love in turn again
That you might bear her baby son
Oh that child she'll never lie to be
Nor from sickness will she ever be free
But she will die and she will turn to clay
And you will wed with another maid Then Simon said this weary man
Has back to his son true love is gone
again I wish my life was at an end
Then a prince spoke his noble queen
And she smote King Willie of her plan
How she might bear her baby son
She says you must go get your down to the market place
And you must buy you a loaf of wax And
you must shape it at the bay that is
to nurse And you must make two eyes of glass
Ask your mother to a christening day And
you must then bear close as you can be
That you might hear what she do say
King Willie has gone down to the market
place And he's bought him a loaf of wax
And he's shaped it at the bay that is
to nurse And he's made two eyes of glass
He asked his mother to a christening day
And he stood very close as he could be
That he might hear what she did say How she spoke and how she swore
She's by the bay and when the bay could be
before She's by the bay when it could be before
Says who was it who went into the
night with jewels braided in her mouth?
This lady's locks And who was it who took out the combs of
cape braided in her mouth?
This lady's hair And who was it who the master
kid that run and slept?
Or beneath this light is bed a rhino slept?
Or beneath her bed And who was it who laced her left shoe?
And who was it that let her light appear?
That she might bear her baby boy?
And it was Willie who went into the night with
jewels braided in her mouth This lady's locks
And it was Willie who took out the combs of
cape braided in her mouth This lady's hair
It was Willie the master kid did slay And it was Willie
who unlaced her left shoe And has let her light appear
And she is born of a baby son And
greet of the blessing that be them upon
And greet of the blessing them upon