The Perilous Gard

At the end of The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope, the minstrel Randal is beginning to make a song about the events in the story, with only the first verse written so far. I wanted to hear the rest of it.

Notes: The second and fourth lines are repeated in each verse.
          A backtick (`) comes before the first downbeat of each line.
          "Teind" rhymes with "leaned".
          You may want to shorten the song by skipping verses 9-10, and/or choosing to skip either 13 or 14-16.

1. `Nine and twenty ladies served in the Queen's hall,
           Follow, my love, come in at the door!
   But `bonnie Katherine Sutton was the flower among them all,
           And we'll never go down to the Well any more.
   

2. Queen `Mary decreed in her anger and her pride
           Follow, my love, ...
   Lady `Katherine at the Perilous Gard must abide.
           And we'll never ...
   

3. There the `fairy folk have stolen the lord's wee child away,
   On `All Hallows' Eve a teind for to pay.
   

4. But the `young lord's gone down to the Well in her stead,
   And `now they are schooling him to be of the dead.
   

5. One `night as he lay in his cell down in the stone,
   `Lady Katherine heard him a-makin' his moan.
   

6. "O `Katherine, fair Katherine, how came you here?"
   "The `steward betrayed me for greed and for fear."
   

7. "O `Katherine, fair Katherine, you cannot set me free,
   But I would have you come every night and speak to me."
   

8. One `night when she came there to speak with him alone,
   His `cell it stood open and the young lord was gone.
   

9. "'Tis the `eve of All Hallows," fair Katherine did cry,
   "And I `fear they have taken off the young lord to die."
   

10. She `ran through the fairy halls as best she knew how,
    Going `out by the oak leaf with never a bough.
    

11. She `spied from afar where the great fire gleamed
    To `take the young lord's life in the paying of the teind.
    

12. He `rode to the middle of the fairy people's ring
    All in `gold and in jewels like a statue of a king.
    

13. They be`spoke and bespelled him to cast his life away,
    But `boldly Katherine answered every word they did say.
    

14. "Be `nothing, O, be nothing," said the Guardian in grey.
    "Be a `man," said fair Katherine, "and live another day."
    

15. "You have `made your life a ruin, now leave it all behind."
    "Don't `let him rob your will, you've done nothing of the kind."
    

16. "Like a `god we give you honor in the golden things you wear."
    "You `look more like the gingerbread they sell down at the fair!"
    

17. "O `Katherine, fair Katherine, you have broken their spell,
    And `brought me back alive from the threshold of Hell!"
    

18. Now the `young lord is master of a manor rich and wide,
    And `Katherine is his lady fair, always at his side.
    

19. And the `Holy Well is drownded and the fairy people fled,
    Never`more to pay a teind of the living to the dead.
    

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