Thomas The Rhymer Lyrics

Lyric discussion by rsagent 

Cover art for Thomas The Rhymer lyrics by Steeleye Span

Falling head over heels in lust with Maddy Prior! Weird. She wasn't my type, dressed in sack cloth and ashes, but she was in incredibly sexy performer! Maybe it was the bawdy lyrics of their act and the atmosphere at the concert but I was in lust.

My mum used to read this Poem to me when I was little , Then when I grew into my teen ( now ) I discovery the lovely maddy prior . I love the verses ...

`Don't you see yon bonnie, bonnie road That lies across the ferny brae? That is the road to fair Elfland Where you and I this night must go.

Its really just beautiful !

I fell in love with her singing when I was maybe 15 or 16, just beginning to understand what she might have been talking about. Never saw her until pretty recently on some youtube video of music from the late 1960s. I would have been shocked - no, overstimulated is the word - to see someone who looks like her singing about things like this?