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This has echoes of another traditional ballad, this time ‘Tam Lin’:

Why come you to Carterhaugh

Without command of me?

I’ll come and go, young Janet said,

And ask no leave of thee

As with some of the other folk song extracts Terry is closer to the recorded (in this case Fairport Convention) version than to the very early text in (say) the Oxford Book of Ballads.

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