Bruton Town - Pentangle

(Um, I think this time we have a traditional song

So, um, about right?

I got it right

It’s called Bruton Town

In Bruton Town there lived a farmer

He had two sons and a daughter

Uh, the daughter falls in love with a servant in the house

And the brothers get together and they don’t dig him very much

They don’t really like this sort, with the servant and all that

So they take the servant out into the woods and they, on the pretext of hunting,

and they do him in

Ah, he, that, that’s about the end of the story)

One, two, three

In Bruton town there lived a farmer

Who had two sons and a daughter dear

By day and night they were contriving

To fill their parents' hearts with fear

He told his secrets to no other

But to her brother this he said

«I think our servant courts our sister

I think they have a mind to wed

I’ll put an end to all their courtship

I’ll send him silent to his grave»

They asked him to go a-hunting

Without any fear or strife

And these two bold and wicked villains

They took away this young man’s life

And in the ditch there was no water

Where only bush and briars grew

They could not hide the blood of slaughter

So in the ditch his body they threw

When they returned home from hunting

She asked for her servant-man

«I ask because I see you whisper

So brothers tell me if you can»

«Oh, sister, you do offend me

Because you examine me

We’ve left him where we’ve been a-hunting

No more of him we could not see»

As she lay dreaming on her pillow

She thought she saw her heart’s delight

By her bedside as she lay weeping

He was dressed in his bloody coat

«Don't weep for me, my dearest jewel

Don’t weep for me nor care nor pine

For your two brothers killed me cruelly

In such a place you may me find»

As she rose early the next morning

With a heavy sigh and bitter groan

The only love that she admired

Lay in the ditch where he was found

Three days and nights she did sit by him

And her poor heart was filled with woe

'Til cruel hunger crept upon her

And home she was obliged to go