reconditarmonia:

notquitelostnotquitefound:

lilliburlero:

elphierix:

look not everyone likes folk ballads and that is fine but willie of winsbury is 100% worth a listen because a plot point is the king finds this guy so damn attractive he just forgets to be mad at him and then offers him half his kingdom because he is just so hot

Here’s Anne Briggs singing it.

Here’s Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer.

Pentangle, and you’re understating the case, OP! “‘Tis no wonder,’ said the king, ‘that my daughter’s love you did win / For if I were a woman as I am a man, my bedfellow you would have been.”