From the recordings Tomorrow Will Follow Today and The Collection
Roberts/Lakeman
Based on ‘The Maid’s Conjuring Book’ from Thomas D’Urfey’s ‘Songs of Wit and Mirth’.
Lyrics
A young man in our town he went to bed one night
No sooner had he laid down than was troubled
So vigorously his spirit stood let him do what he can
He said "I think it must be tamed by woman."
By woman not by man, by woman not by man
He said "I think it must be tamed by woman not by man."
A pretty girl did undertake and into bed she leaped
To calm the spirits power close she crept
And having such a guardian care her office to discharge
She opened wide her Banishing Book and laid there.
She laid her leaves at large, she laid her leaves at large
She opened wide her Banishing Book and laid her leaves at large.
Her duty she well performed within a little space
Then up she got and he dared not show his face
They said goodbye and off she went when she had done the deed
Saying "if it comes again then call for me"
Call for me with speed, call for me with speed.
If it comes again then you must call or me with speed.