I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair
  To travel to Carter Hall for young Tam Lin is there
  
  None that go by Carter Hall but they leave him a pledge
  Either their mantles of green or else their maidenhead"
  
  Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
  And she's gone to Carter Hall as fast as go can she
  
  She'd not pulled a double rose, a rose but only two
  When up there came young Tam Lin says "Lady, pull no more"
  
  "And why come you to Carter Hall without command from me?"
  "I'll come and go", young Janet said, "and ask no leave of thee"
  
  Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
  And she's gone to her father as fast as go can she
  
  Well, up then spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild
  "Oh, and alas, Janet," he said, "I think you go with child"
  
  "Well, if that be so," Janet said, "myself shall bear the blame
  There's not a knight in all your hall shall get the baby's name
  
  For if my love were an earthly knight as he is an elfin grey
  I'd not change my own true love for any knight you have"
  
  Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
  And she's gone to Carter Hall as fast as go can she
  
  "Oh, tell to me, Tam Lin," she said, "why came you here to dwell?"
  "The Queen of Faeries caught me when from my horse I fell
  
  And at the end of seven years she pays a tithe to hell
  I so fair and full of flesh and feared it be myself
  
  But tonight is Hallowe'en and the faery folk ride
  Those that would their true love win at Miles Cross they must buy
  
  So first let past the horses black and then let past the brown
  Quickly run to the white steed and pull the rider down
  
  For I'll ride on the white steed, the nearest to the town
  For I was an earthly knight, they give me that renown
  
  Oh, they will turn me in your arms to a newt or a snake
  But hold me tight and fear not, I am your baby's father
  
  And they will turn me in your arms into a lion bold
  But hold me tight and fear not and you will love your child
  
  And they will turn me in your arms into a naked knight
  But cloak me in your mantle and keep me out of sight"
  
  In the middle of the night she heard the bridle ring
  She heeded what he did say and young Tam Lin did win
  
  Then up spoke the Faery Queen, an angry queen was she
  Woe betide her ?ill-fought? face, an ill death may she die
  
  "Oh, had I known, Tam Lin," she said, "what this knight I did see
  I have looked him in the eyes and turned him to a tree"