A fairly innocuous version of thoroughly anti-Semitic legend. Hugh of Lincoln was a nine-year-old boy who disappeared in the English town of Lincoln on 31st July, 1255. His body was later discovered in a well on the property of a local Jewish man named Copin, who “was immediately seized by those pre...
Mother mother make my bed
Make for me a winding sheet
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
See if I can sleep
Four and twenty bonny bonny boys playing at the hall
Along came little Sir Hugh, he played with them all
He kicked the ball very high, he kicked the ball so low
He kicked it over a castle wall where no one dared to go
Out came a lady gay, she was dressed in green
"Come in, come in little Sir Hugh, fetch your ball again"
"I won't come in, I can't come in without my play mates all
For if I should I know you would cause my blood to fall"
Mother mother make my bed
Make for me a winding sheet
Wrap me up in a cloak of gold
See if I can sleep
She took him by the milk white hand, led him to the hall
Till they came to a stone chamber where no one could hear him call
She sat him on a golden chair, she gave him sugar sweet
She lay him on a dressing board and stabbed him like a sheep
Out came the thick thick blood, out came the thin
Out came the bonny heart's blood till there was none within
She took him by the yellow hair and also by the feet
She threw him in the old draw well fifty fathoms deep
Little Sir Hugh was written by Bob Johnson & Maddy Prior & Peter Knight & Rick Kemp & Traditional & Tim Hart (Steeleye Span).
Little Sir Hugh was produced by Robin Black & Steeleye Span.