Henrik Norbeck's Song Lyrics

What Put the Blood on Your Right Shoulder Son?

Sheet Music (and more information about this song)

Where have you been all the whole day long?
Son, come tell it unto me
A-fishing and a-fowling the whole day long
All through mother's treachery,
all through mother's treachery

What put the blood on your right shoulder?
Son, come tell it unto me
'Twas the killing of a hare that I killed today
That I killed right manfully, that I killed right manfully

The blood of a hare, it would never be so red
Son, come tell it unto me
'Twas the killing of a boy that I killed today
That I killed most brutally, that I killed most brutally

What came between yourself and the boy?
Son, come tell it unto me
It was mostly the cutting of a rod
That would never become a tree, that would never become a tree

What will you do when your daddy finds out?
Son, come tell it unto me
I will put my foot on board a ship
And sail to a foreign country, and sail to a foreign country

What will you do with your lovely wedded wife?
Son, come tell it unto me
She can put her foot on board of a ship
And sail there after me, and sail there after me

What will you do with your two fine young babes?
Son, come tell it unto me
I'll give one to my father and the other to my mother
For to keep them company, for to keep them company

What will you do with your two fine racehorses?
Son, come tell it unto me.
I will take the bridles off their necks
For they'll run no more for me, for they'll run no more for me.

What will you do with your two fine greyhounds?
Son, come tell it unto me.
I will take the leads all off their necks
For they'll run no more for me, they'll run no more for me.

What will you do with your house and your lands?
Son, come tell it unto me
I will lay them bare to the birds of the air
For there's no more welcome there for me, for there's no more welcome there for me

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