Loreena McKennitt
Loreena McKennitt - The Death Of Queen Jane songtekst
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Het lied is een Engelse ballade en gaat over de dood van Koningin Jane. In de Schotse versie van dit lied wordt de koningin Jeanie of Jeany genoemd.
Velen geloven dat de Koningin Jane Seymour is, de vrouw van Koning Henry VIII van Engeland. Jane Seymour stierf namelijk 12 dagen na de geboorte van haar zoon, de latere Koning Edward VI.
Queen Jane lay in labor full nine days or more 'Til her women grew so tired, they could no longer there They could no longer there "Good women, good women, good women that you may be Will you open my right side and find my baby? And find my baby "Oh no," cried the women, "That's a thing that can never be We will send for King Henry and hear what he may say And hear what he may say" King Henry was sent for, King Henry did come Saying, "What does ail you my lady? Your eyes, they look so dim Your eyes, they look so dim" "King Henry, King Henry, will you do one thing for me? That's to open my right side and find my baby And find my baby" "Oh no, cried King Henry, "That's a thing I'll never do If I lose the flower of England, I shall lose the branch too I shall lose the branch too" There was fiddling, aye, and dancing on the day the babe was born But poor Queen Jane, beloved, lay cold as the stone Lay cold as the stone