#child 100

[saienby]

One of my favorite folk songs is Child 100, commonly known as Willie of Winsbury. It's about a king who comes home from being a prisoner of war in Spain to find his daughter pregnant and he's like "I'll kill the bastard, guards, seize this Willie of Winsbury and bring him before me!" And so they do and then the king is like "damn, alright, I didn't know you were smoking hot, just marry my daughter and we're cool, sound good?"

Like, the dude goes from "I'll kill him" to saying some of the gayest shit lol I love it like check this out

And Willie of the Winsbury

All dressed out in red silk

His hair hung like the strands of gold

His breast was white as milk

"No wonder, no wonder, " the king he said

"That my daughter's love you did win

If I were a woman as I am a man

In my own bed you would have been

And will you marry my daughter Jane

By the faith of your right hand?

And I'll make you the lord of my serving men

I'll make you the heir to my land"

[thealphaaxolotl]

Willie of Winsbury has to be the funniest child ballad. Imagine getting pregnant and your father, the king, summons your boyfriend to be executed, but your father then sees how hot your boyfriend is and goes “lmao yeah I’d sleep with him too if I could, you can totally marry my daughter.”

[kotitontunmanaaja]

this is still a sketch, something something english aristocratic masculine fear and fancy for frilly continental burgher boys and brown working foreigners both at once. anyway listen to cohen braithwaite-kilcoyne's 'tom the barber' folk ballads slap.

[fuckyeahtraditionalfolk]

Pentangle - Willy O Winsbury (Child #100)

:O I didn't know there were footages of this one.