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Sweet William arose one May morningAnd dressed himself in blue"We want you to tell us something aboutThe long love between Lady Margaret and you.""I know nothing of Lady Margaret's love,I'm sure she don't love me,But tomorrow morning at eight o'clock,Lady Margaret my bride shall see."Lady Margaret sat in her own hall door,A-combing down her hair,When she saw Sweet William come riding by,Bringing his new bride home.She first threw down her ivory comb,Tied up her long yellow hair,And out of the door when this lady came,To never return anymore.Now late that night when William was in bedAnd most all man was asleep,Lady Margaret's boots came to Sweet William's sideAnd stood at his own bedfeet.Saying, "How do you like your snow-white pillow,SongtexteHow do you like your sheet,And how do you like the new-found brideThat's a-lying in your arms asleep?""Very well, very well do I like my pillow,better do I like the sheet,But the best one of all is this pretty little girl,That's a-standing at my own bedfeet."So early next morning when William awokeAnd most all man was at work,Sweet William said he was troubled in his headBy the dream that he dreamt last night."Such dreams, such dreams I do not like,Such dreams, they are no goodI dreamed that my hog was filled with wild swan,Lady Margaret was drowning in blood."So he called his comrades to his side,"Number them one-two-three,And the last one of them, go tell my bride,Lady Margaret I've gone to see."He rode till he came to Lady Margaret's hall,Pulled along the build,There's none so ready as Lady Margaret's brotherFor to rise and let him in."Now is she in the garden?" he said"Or is she in the hall?Or is she in the other parlorAmong them ladies all?""She neither is in the garden," he said,"Nor yet into the hall,But yonder she lies in her cold coffin,With her pale face turned to the wall."Lady Margaret was buried in the old churchyard,William lay a-nigh her,And out of the grave grew a red red roseAnd out of his a briar.They grew and they grew in the old churchyardTill they could grow no higherThey met and they twined in a true lover's knot,The red rose around the briar. Aus Songtexte Mania