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Jack O'Rion was the finest fiddler ever fiddled on the string
He could drive young ladies wild with a tune his wires would sing
He could fiddle the fish out of salt water, water from a marble stone
Or milk from out a maiden's breast though baby she had none
There he played in the castle hall and there he played them fast asleep
Except it was for the young countess who, for love, she stayed awake
So first he played her a slow air and then he played it brisk and gay
And oh, dear love, behind her glove, this lady she did say
"Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed and flapped their wings so wide
It's you must come to my chamber there and lie down by my side"
So he wrapped his fiddle in a cloth of green and he stole out on his a-tip-a-toe
And he's off back to his young boy Tom as fast as he could go
"Ere the day has dawned and the cocks have crowed and flapped their wings so wide
I'm bid to go to the lady's door and stretch out by her side"
"Lie down, lie down, my good master, here's a blanket to your hand
And I'll waken you in as good a time as any cock in this land"
Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand, he fiddled and he played for a full hour
Until he played him fast asleep; he's off to the lady's bower
And when he came to her chamber door, he twirled softly at the pin
The lady, true to her promise, rose up and let him in
He did not take that lady gay to bolster nor to bed
But down upon the hard cold floor right soon he had her laid
And he did not kiss her when he came nor yet but from her he did go
But in out the lady's bedroom window, the moon like a coal did glow
"Ragged are your stockings, love, and stubbly is your cheek and chin
And tousled is that yellow hair that I saw yestereve"
"These stockings belong to my boy Tom, they were the first came to my hand
The wind must have tousled my yellow hair and I rode over the land"
Now Tom took the fiddle into his hand, he fiddled and he played so saucily
He's off back to his master's house as fast as go could he
"Wake up, wake up, oh my good master, why snore you there so loud?
There's not a cock in all this land but has clapped his wings and crowed"
Jack O'Rion took the fiddle into his hand and he fiddled and he played so merrily
He's off away to the lady's house as fast as go could he
And when he came to the lady's door, he twirled so softly at the pin
Saying "Oh, my dear, it's your true love, rise up and let me in"
She said "Surely you didn't leave behind a golden brooch nor a velvet glove
Or are you returning back again to taste more of my love?"
Jack O'Rion, he swore a bloody oath, by oak, by ash, by bitter thorn
"Lady, I never was in your house since the day that I was born"
"Oh, then it was your young boy Tom that cruelly has beguiled me"
"Oh woe, that the blood of that ruffian boy did spring in my body"
Jack O'Rion sped off to his own house, saying "Tom, my boy, come here to me"
He hung him from his own gatepost, high as a willow tree


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Songs of Fairport Convention:

(come All Ye) Rolling Minstrels
After Halloween
Angel Delight
Autopsy
Big William
Book Song
Bring 'em Down
Cajun Woman
Dawn
Doctor Of Physick
Eastern Rain
Flowers Of The Forest
Iron Lion
Jack O'diamonds
Jack O'rion
John Barleycorn
Lady Of Pleasure
Let It Go
Lord Marlborough
Million Dollar Bash
Mr Lacey
Night-time Girl
No Man's Land
Nottamun Town
One More Chance
One Sure Thing
Part I
Part Ii
Part Iv (the Sailor's Alphabet)
Part Ix
Part V (john Lee)
Part Vi (breakfast In Mayfair)
Part Vii
Part Viii
Part X
Part Xi (the Hanging Song)
Pleasure And Pain
Polly On The Shore
Possibly Parsons Green
Restless
Reynard The Fox
Rising For The Moon
She Moves Through The Fair
Sickness And Diseases
Sir Patrick Spens
Sir William Gower
Stranger To Himself
The Bonny Black Hare
The Hexhamshire Lass
The Journeyman's Grace
The Widow Of Westmorland's Daughter
Three Drunken Maidens
Time Will Show The Wiser
To Althea From Prison
What Is True
White Dress
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Wizard Of The Worldly Game
Ye Mariners All
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