francisco el hombre In Bruton Town (English trad.)

Traditional English murder ballad dating babk probably to the late middle ages (Roud # 18) and known in several versions. Two brothers kill their sister servant, since she and her servant are planning to marry. My take, inspired by the 1968 Maddy Prior and Tim Hart version, used the AJ75 Dermot McIlroy just recently made for me, and an Abnett irish bouzouki in the background (two distinct bouzouki tracks).


In Bruton town

In Bruton town there lived a farmer,
Who had two sons and one daughter dear.
By day and night they were conspiring
To fill their parents' heart with fear.

He told his secrets to no other,
But to her brother this he said:
"I think our servant courts our sister.
I think they have a mind to wed.
I'll put an end to all their courtship.
I'll send him silent to his grave."

They asked him then to go a-hunting,
Without any fear or strife,
But these two bold and wicked villains,
They took away this young man's life.

And in the ditch there was no water,
Where only bush and briars grew.
They could not hide the blood of slaughter,
So in the ditch his body threw.

When they returned home from hunting,
She asked them for her servantman.
"I ask because I see you whisper,
So brothers tell me if you can."

"Sister, sister, you do offend me,
Because you so examine me.
We've lost him when we've been a-hunting.
No more of him we could not see."

As she lay dreaming on her pillow,
She thought she saw her heart's delight;
By her bed side as she lay weeping,
He was dressed in his bloody coat.

"Don't weep for me, my dearest jewel,
Don't weep for me nor care nor pine,
For your two brothers killed me cruel
In such a place you may me find."

So she rose early the next morning,
With heavy sigh and bitter groan,
The only love that she admired,
She found in the ditch where he was thrown.

Three days and nights she did sit by him,
Till her poor heart was filled with woe,
Then cruel hunger came upon her,
And to her home she had to go.

When she returned to her brothers:
"Sister, what makes you look so thin?"
"Brother, don't you ask the reason of me,
Oh, for his sake you shall be hung!"

francisco el hombre In Bruton Town (English trad.)
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