As it fell out upon a day   As many in the year   Musgrave to the church did go   To see fair ladies there      And some came down in red velvet   And some came down in pall   And the last to come down was the lady barnard   The fairest of them all      She's cast a look on the little musgrave   As bright as the summer sun   And then bethought this little musgrave   This lady's love I've won      Good day good day you handsome youth   God make you safe and free   What would you give this day musgrave   To lie one night with me      I dare not for my lands, lady   I dare not for my life   For the ring on your white finger shows   You are lord barnard's wife      Lord barnard's to the hunting gone   And I hope he'll never return   And you shall slip into his bed   And keep his lady warm      There's nothing for to fear musgrave   You nothing have to fear   I'll set a page outside the gate   To watch til morning clear      And woe be to the little footpage   And an ill death may he die   For he's away to the green wood   As fast as he could fly      And when he came to the wide water   He fell on his belly and swam   And when he came to the other side   He took to his heels and ran      And when he came to the green wood   'twas dark as dark can be   And he found lord barnard and his men   Asleep beneath the trees      Rise up rise up master he said   Rise up and speak to me   Your wife's in bed with little musgrave   Rise up right speedily      If this be truth you tell to me   Then gold shall be your fee   And if it be false you tell to me   Then hanged you shall be      Go saddle me the black he said   Go saddle me the grey   And sound you not the horn said he   Lest our coming it would betray      Now there was a man in lord barnard's train   Who loved the little musgrave   And he blew his horn both loud and shrill   Away musgrave away      I think I hear the morning cock   I think I hear the jay   I think I hear lord barnard's horn   Away musgrave away      Lie still, lie still, you little musgrave   And keep me from the cold   It's nothing but a shepherd boy   Driving his flock to the fold      Is not your hawk upon it's perch   Your steed is eating hay   And you a gay lady in your arms   And yet you would away      So he's turned him right and round about   And he fell fast asleep   And when he woke lord barnard's men   Were standing at his feet      And how do you like my bed musgrave   And how do you like my sheets   And how do you like my fair lady   That lies in your arms asleep      It's well I like your bed he said   And well I like your sheets   But better I like your fair lady   That lies in my arms asleep      Get up, get up young man he said   Get up as swift as you can   For it never will be said in my country   I slew an unarmed man      I have two swords in one scabbard   Full dear they cost my purse   And you shall have the best of them   I shall have the worst      So slowly, so slowly he rose up   And slowly he put on   And slowly down the stairs he goes   Thinking to be slain      And the first stroke little musgrave took   It was both deep and sore   And down he fell at barnard's feet   And word he never spoke more      And how do you like his cheeks, lady   And how do you like his chin   And how do you like his fair body   Now there's no life within      It's well I like his cheeks she said   And well I like his chin   And better I like his fair body   Than all your kith and kin      And he's taken up his long long sword   To strike a mortal blow   And through and through the lady's heart   The cold steel it did go      As it fell out upon a day   As many in the year   Musgrave to the church did go   To see fair ladies there