Traddy McTrads-A-Lot, OK? Not filk, but Child #1 :-)

[catamariner]

Riddles Wisely Expounded (Child 1) asb Jean Redpath, Kevin Elam, millions of others :-)

 

A lady lived in the north country                              Lay the bent to the bonnie broom

And she had lovely daughters three                          Fa la la LA la la la la la-la

 

There was a knight of noble worth

Who also lived into the north

 

One night when it wa-as cold and late

This knight he came to the lady's gate

 

The eldest daughter she let him in

She's pinned the door with a silver pin

 

The second daughter she's made his bed

And Holland sheets so fine she spread

 

The youngest daughter so fair and bright

She lay abed with this noble knight

 

“If you will answer me questions three

It's then fair maid I will marry thee:

 

Oh what is louder than a horn

And what is sharper than a thorn

 

And what is longer than the way

And what is deeper than the sea

 

And what is greener than the grass

And what more wicked than-a

Woman-e'er was?”

 

“Oh thunder's louder than a horn

And hunger sharper than a thorn

 

And love is longer than the way

And hell is deeper than the sea

 

It’s envy's greener than the grass

And the devil-more wick-ed than a woman-e'er was

 

As soon as she the fiend did name

He flew away in a blazin' flame             ["bleezin' flame" in Scots dialect <3]