Lamferd- Salley Hubbard (UT) c.1870 Hubbard
[From: Ballads and Songs from Utah, Hubbard, 1961. His notes follow.
R. Matteson 2015]
10 LAMFERD- Salley A. Hubbard of Salt Lake City, June 26, 1942. She said that she could not remember three additional stanzas which her mother sang in the 1870's.
Young Lamferd was the best mason that ever laid a stone;
He built Lord Arnold's castle and the lord paid him none;
He swore that he'd have revenge, and revenge it would be,
He's have Lord Arnold's castle or the lord's family.
One day as the lord was a-going away from home,
He said to his wife, "What if Lamferd should come?"
"I fear not young Lamferd nor none of his kin;
My doors I'll keep fastened and my windows pinned in."
Her doors she kept fastened and the windows pinned in,
All except the kitchen window, where young Lamferd crept in.
"Oh Lamferd, oh Lamferd, let me go back,
And I'll give you as much gold as you can carry in a sack."
"Not as much gold as I can carry in a sack
Will ever keep this razor from your snowy white neck."
Lord Arnold returned and he opened the door;
He found his dear lady lying dead on the floor.
Lord Arnold he entered into the hall;
He found his dear baby lying dead by the wall.
Young Lamferd was hung on the gallows so high,
And Arnold[1] was burned by the pureness of fire.
1. this is the nurse who is missing from the version (in the missing stanzas).