Matty Groves - Joan Baez

[00:03.56]A holiday
[00:04.72]A holiday
[00:07.08]And the first one of the year
[00:10.1]Lord DArlen's wife came into the church
[00:11.79]The gospel for to hear
[00:16.34]And when the meeting it was done
[00:21.86]She cast her eyes about
[00:26.27]And there she saw little Matty Groves
[00:29.6]Walking in the crowd
[00:32.07]Come home with me
[00:37.48]Little Matty Groves
[00:39.16]Come home with me tonight
[00:40.51]Come home with me
[00:42.64]Little Matty Groves
[00:44.38]And sleep with me till light
[00:47.52]Oh
[00:49.05]I can't come home
[00:53.52]I won't come home and sleep with you tonight
[00:59.33]By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are my master's wife
[01:04.81]But if I am Lord Arlen 's wife
[01:13.520004]Lord Arlen's not at home
[01:17.36]He is out in the far cornfields bringing the yearlings home
[01:30.39]And a servant who was standing by and hearing what was said
[01:43.770004]He swore Lord Arlen he would know before the sun would set
[01:49.97]And in his hurry to carry the news
[01:55.54]He bent his breast and ran
[02:00.29]And when he came to the broad millstream
[02:21.84]He took off his shoes and he swam
[02:25.69]Little Matty Groves
[02:28.52]He lay down and took a little sleep
[02:34.64]When he awoke
[02:39.13]Lord Arlen was standing at his feet
[02:44.15]Saying How do you like my feather bed and how do you like my sheets
[02:58.17]How do you like my lady who lies in your arms asleep
[03:06.23]Oh
[03:09.31]Well I like your feather bed and well I like your sheets
[03:19.94]But better I like your lady gay who lies in my arms asleep
[03:27.62]Well
[03:29.72]Get up
[03:42.08]Get up Lord Arlen cried
[03:44.55]Get up as quick as you can
[03:46.51]It'll never be said in fair England that I slew a naked man
[03:50.89]Oh
[03:51.1]I can't get up
[03:56.74]I won't get up
[04:00.08]I can't get up for my life
[04:03.27]For you have two long beaten swords and I not a pocket knife
[04:16.45]Well it's true I have two beaten swords and they cost me deep in the purse
[04:41.86]But you will have the better of them and I will have the worse
[04:49.21]And you will strike the very first blow and strike it like a man
[04:55.81]I will strike the very next blow and I'll kill you if I can
[05:06.97]So Matty struck the very first blow and he hurt Lord Arlen sore
[05:25.61]Lord Arlen struck the very next blow and Matty struck no more
[05:35.38]And then Lord Arlen took his wife and he sat her on his knee
[05:45.75]Saying Who do you like the best of us
[05:52.86]Matty Groves or me
[06:03.46]And then up spoke his own dear wife
[06:07.83]Never heard to speak so free
[06:11.11]I'd rather a kiss from dead Matty's lips than you or your finery
[06:25.41]Lord Arlen he jumped up and loudly he did bawl
[06:32.34]He struck his wife right through the heart and pinned her against the wall
[06:43.76]A grave
[06:48.55]A grave Lord Arlen cried
[06:53.26]To put these lovers in
[06:58.68]But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin