Long Lankin

from CRYPTIDS by Stone Breath

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about

traditional, arrangement by Stone Breath.

Trotterhead has always called to my mind that other dark and strange character of folksong, who crept through a crack in a window, Long Lankin.

lyrics

Said the lord to his lady,
As he mounted his horse,
Beware of Long Lankin
That lives in the moss.
Said the lord to his lady,
As he went on his way,
Beware of Long Lankin
That lives in the hay.
See the doors are all bolted
And the windows are pinned.
Leave not a space
For a mouse to peep in.
O the doors were all bolted
And the windows were pinned.
Through a crack in the glass
Long Lankin crept in.
Where's the lord of the household?
Cried Long Lankin.
He's away off to London said the false nurse to him. Where's the lady of the household?
Cried Long Lankin.
She's asleep in her chamber
Said the false nurse to him.
Where's the heir of the household?
Cried Long Lankin.
He sleeps in his cradle
Said the false nurse to him.
We will pinch him and we'll prick him
With a needle and a pin
And that will make the Lady
Come down to him.
So they pinched him and they pricked him
With a needle and a pin.
The false nurse held a basin
For the blood to run in.
O nurse how you slumber.
O nurse how you sleep.
You leave my poor son
To cry and to weep.
O nurse how you slumber.
O nurse how you snore.
You leave my poor baby
To cry and to roar.
I've tried him with the milk
And I've tried him with the pap.
Come down, my pretty lady,
And rock him on your lap.
I've tried him with the rattle.
I've tried him with the bell.
Come down, my pretty lady,
And rock him yourself.
How dare I come downstairs
In the dead of the night
When there's no candles burning
And no fire alight?
But the lady she came downstairs.
She was thinking no harm.
Long Lankin stood ready
For to catch her in his arms.
Now there's blood in the kitchen.
There's blood in the hall
There's blood in the parlor
Where the lady did fall.
There's blood in the basin.
There's blood in the bed.
There's blood in the cradle
Where the baby lies dead.

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from CRYPTIDS, released September 30, 2016

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Stone Breath is not new. It is cracked. Broken. Imperfect. Hidden. Weathered by the seasons.

We sing of ghosts and of forgotten paths through forest and fallow field.

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