Sir Simon de Montford



Sir Simon de Montford my subject shall bee

Once chief of all the great barons was hee

Yet fortune so cruelle this lord did abase

Now lost and forgotten are he and his race



Ah me and ah me

Ah me and ah me

The rosebud and the briar





When the barons in arms did King Henry oppose

Sir Simon de Montford their leader they chose

A leader of courage undaunted was he

And ofttimes he made their enemies flee



At length in the battle on Eveshame Plain

The barons were routed and Montford was slain

Along with the nobles that fell at that tide

Was his eldest son Henry, who fought by his side



A baron's fair daughter stept forth in the night

To find her father who fell in that fight

And seeing young Henry where gasping he lay

Was moved with pity and brought him away



In secret she nurst him and swayed his pain

While he elsewhere was believed to be slain

At length his fair bride she consented to be

And this was thy mother, my pretty Bessie



Thus many long winters now have I been

The silly blind beggar of Bednan Green

And thus have you learned a secret from me

That ne'er had been known but for pretty Bessie



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from the Laurel Music Reader, 1921

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