Little Sir Hugh - Steeleye Span

Mother mother make my bed

Make for me a winding sheet

Wrap me up in a cloak of gold

See if I can sleep

Four and twenty bonny bonny boys playing at the hall

Along came little Sir Hugh, he played with them all

He kicked the ball very high, he kicked the ball so low

He kicked it over a castle wall where no one dared to go

Out came a lady gay, she was dressed in green

«Come in, come in little Sir Hugh, fetch your ball again»

«I won’t come in, I can’t come in without my play mates all

For if I should I know you would cause my blood to fall»

She took him by the milk white hand, led him to the hall

Till they came to a stone chamber where no one could hear him call

She sat him on a golden chair, she gave him sugar sweet

She lay him on a dressing board and stabbed him like a sheep

Out came the thick thick blood, out came the thin

Out came the bonny heart’s blood till there was none within

She took him by the yellow hair and also by the feet

She threw him in the old draw well fifty fathoms deep