《Sam’s Rhyme of the Troll》歌词

[00:00:23] troll sat alone on his seat of stone,

[00:00:25] and munched and mumbled a bare old bone;

[00:00:28] for many a year he had gnawed it near,

[00:00:32] for meat was hard to come by.

[00:00:34] done by! gum by!

[00:00:36] in a case in the hills he dwelt alone,

[00:00:38] and meat was hard to come by.

[00:00:44] up came tom with his big boots on.

[00:00:46] said he to troll: 'pray, what is yon?

[00:00:48] for it looks like the shin o' my nuncle tim,

[00:00:52] as should be a-lyin' in graveyard.

[00:00:55] caveyard! paveyard!

[00:00:57] this many a year has tim been gone,

[00:00:59] and i thought he were lyin' in graveyard.'

[00:01:08] 'my lad,' said troll, 'this bone i stole.

[00:01:12] but what be bones that lie in a hole?

[00:01:17] thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead,

[00:01:24] afore i found his shinbone.

[00:01:29] tinbone! thinbone!

[00:01:36] he can spare a share for a poor old troll,

[00:01:41] for he don't need his shinbone.'

[00:01:47] said tom: 'i don't see why the likes o' thee

[00:01:50] without axin' leave should go makin' free

[00:01:52] with the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;

[00:01:56] so hand the old bone over!

[00:01:59] rover! trover!

[00:02:01] though dead he be, it belongs to he;

[00:02:03] so hand the old bone over!'

[00:02:40] 'for a couple o' pins,' says troll, and grins,

[00:02:44] 'i'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.

[00:02:49] a bit o' fresh meal will go down sweet!

[00:02:56] i'll try my teeth on thee now.

[00:03:00] hee now! see now!

[00:03:07] i'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;

[00:03:11] i've a mind to dine on thee now.'

[00:03:18] but just as he thought his dinner was caught,

[00:03:21] he found his hands had hold of naught.

[00:03:23] before he could mind, tom slipped behind

[00:03:27] and gave him the boot to larn him.

[00:03:29] warn him! darn him!

[00:03:32] a bump o' the boot on the seat, tom thought,

[00:03:34] would be the way to larn him.

[00:03:40] but harder than stone is the flesh and bone

[00:03:42] of a troll that sits in the hills alone.

[00:03:44] as well set your boot to the mountain's root,

[00:03:48] for the seat of a troll don't feel it.

[00:03:51] peel it! heal it!

[00:03:53] old troll laughed, when he heard tom groan,

[00:03:55] and he knew his toes could feel it.

[00:04:28] tom's leg is game, since home he came,

[00:04:32] and his bootless foot is lasting lame;

[00:04:37] but troll don't care, and he's still there

[00:04:43] with the bone he boned from its owner.

[00:04:46] doner! boner!

[00:04:48] troll's old seat is still the same,

[00:04:52] and the bone he boned from its owner!.