The Incest Song

Word is up to the king's dear daughter And word is spreading all over the land That's she's been betrayed by her own dear brother That he has chosen another fair hand Many young man had a song of her beauty And many a grand deed for her had been done But within her sights she carried the child Of her father's youngest, fairest son Tell to me no lies Tell to me no stories But saddle my good horse and I'll go and see my own true love If your words be true ones, then that will mean the end of me Brother, oh brother, what lies be these ones? They say your love to another I lose There's a child within me of thy very own lineage And I know it's I that thou would chose And have you yet told your father or mother All that thou has told here to me And he's taken off his good braided sword And I am down beside his knee No I've not told no one but you my dear one For it's a secret between us two And I would come home and quit all my roaming And spend my days only waiting on you Too late too late for change my sister My father has chosen another fair bride And he stabbed her easy and lovingly lay her Down in her grave by the green wood side And when he's come home to his own wedding of feasting And his father asks why he's weeping all so He says such a bride as a I've seen on this morning Never another man shall know --- The Incest Song - Buffy Sainte-Marie