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The Shaming of Agnes Leman

from Martyred Hearts by The Familiars

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Oh where do you go, pretty Agnes, pretty Agnes?
Where do you go with your yellow hair so bright?
“I go to meet my Jonny in the Cokey Lane, old woman
For we will warm each other on this cold March night.”

Oh have you no shame, pretty Agnes, pretty Agnes?
Oh have you no shame, with your yellow hair so bright?
Your Jonny he is married to the Goodwife Gorney
And in doing what you do, you offend the women quite.

We will see you in court, pretty Agnes, pretty Agnes
We will drag you there ourselves by your yellow hair so bright
“I care not for your treatment, but only for my sweetheart;
My darling Jonny Gorney, my shining gallant knight.”

Where is you Gallant Jonny, pretty Agnes, Pretty Agnes?
As you stand in the dock with your yellow hair so bright?
He loved you for your cunny and for that he paid you money
But he loves you not, and has confessed his conduct was not right.

We will make of you example, pretty Agnes, pretty Agnes
We will strip you bare and shave you of your yellow hair so bright
And naked to the cuckingstool through Norwich market lead you
And none that see, shall save you from your well-deservéd plight.

Not so proud and cocky, pretty Agnes, pretty Agnes
Nor so pretty neither for we’ve made of you a fright
As the goodwives and the mistresses of Norwich lead you bare and bald
O’er Coslany Bridge and Fyebrigg till you reach the ducking site.

We will duck you in the water, ugly Agnes, ugly Agnes
We will freeze your wanton body blue and white, blue and white
Then through Tumland and St Andrews back to your wretched hovel lead you
And you will know the full force of a scornéd woman’s spite.

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from Martyred Hearts, released October 8, 2014

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Acoustic acid-folk from Norwich. Vaguely Pagan. Virtuoso guitarist chanelling Bert Jansch & honey-voiced singer / heretic, supported by guest violinist Vincent Maltby.

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