Hilla Lilla sits in her bedchamber
No one knows my sorrow but God
Many a tear falls down her cheek
Who could share my pain, he lives no more: he is gone
An urgent message to the Queen arrived
Proud Hilla Lilla sews frenzied her seams
The Queen wears her cloak of blue
To pay proud Hilla Lilla a visit to
Gracious Queen please sit down here
That I may tell to you my sorrows my dear
My father he kept me oh so pure
Served by a knight both hand and foot
And it was the Duke of Hillebrand
With him I would flee to the foreign lands
And when we reached a shady grove
There the Duke he lay himself down
He lay for a time inside of me
And then he slept so calm and sweet
Hillebrand Hillebrand sleep not now
I hear my father and my brothers seven
Hardly had I said these words
When seven wounds struck my Hillebrand down
One brother seized my golden locks
And bound me onto his saddle horn
And when we came to the first gate
My mother forlorn stood awaiting me
My brother he wished to strangle me
But my mother she chose to sell me away
She sold me for a brand new bell
It hangs in the village of Marie Church
When my mother heard the chime of that bell
Her heart it shattered into pieces small
Proud Hilla Lilla finished her tale like that
No one knows my sorrow but God
At the Queen's feet she fell down dead
Who could share my pain, he lives no more: he is gone
Emma taught us this ballad, which starts off bad and ends in total misery.
Hilla Lilla tells the Queen the story of her life, which includes the death
of her fiance, the death of her mother and how she herself was sold away.
After finishing the story Hilla Lilla falls down dead in the lap of the
Queen. |
