As I walked among the green fields One evening in May I spied the fairest damsels All at their sport and play Such beauty as beguiled me I ne'er did see again The one was Lady Margaret The other Evelainne I passed beside their garden As I daily went my way From work among the cattle Where I laboured for my pay And as the sun was setting low Their laughter ran like wine And made the young men tremble And made them lose their minds My father often told me Never enter through their gate For many young men had before And none did know their fate They say each has the devil's eye And none to mercy show Who entered in their garden Where no earthly man should go They say they loved a soldier Who did take of both in turn And when he had been satisfied He both of them did spurn And they placed their curse upon him Til they drained his life away And on every man who enters They take their vengeance to this day Though for three score year's I've lived here With my border and my gun Their laughter still comes tumbling At the setting of the sun And their beauty still beguiles me As they play their children's games The one is Lady Margaret The other Evelainne As I walked among the green fields One evening in May