In order to revive Merry, Pippin, and Sam after getting them out of the barrow, Tom chants: Get out, you old wight! Vanish in the sunlight! Shrivel like the cold mist, like the winds go wailing, Out into the barren lands far beyond the mountains! Come never here again! Leave your barrow empty! Lost and forgotten be, darker than the darkness, Where gates stand for ever shut, till the world is mended.ġ0. Tom sings a sort of exorcism to banish the Barrow-wight: None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.ĩ. Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. After Frodo calls out the lines above, he hears Tom Bombadil singing the following: Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!Ĩ. Tom teaches the hobbits what to sing if they get into trouble: Nor shall I be passing Old Man Willow's house this side of spring-time, not till the merry spring, when the River-daughter dances down the withy-path to bathe in the water.ħ. Sweet was her singing then, and her heart was beating! And that proved well for you- for now I shall no longer go down deep again along the forest-water, not while the year is old. By that pool long ago I found the River-daughter, fair young Goldberry sitting in the rushes. Each year at summer's end I go to find them for her, in a wide pool, deep and clear, far down the Withywindle there they open first in spring and there they linger latest. I had an errand there: gathering water-lilies, green leaves and lilies white to please my pretty lady, the last ere the year's end to keep them from the winter, to flower by her pretty feet till the snows are melted. After supper, Tom explains why he was down by Old Man Willow: Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.Ħ. While Tom is taking care of the ponies, he sings: Now let the song begin! Let us sing together! Of sun, stars, moon and mist, rain and cloudy weather, Light on the budding leaf, dew on the feather, Wind on the open hill, bells on the heather, Reeds by the shady pool, lilies on the water: Old Tom Bombadil and the River-daughter!ĥ. Now let the fun begin! Let us sing together!Ĥ. Hey! Come derry dol! Hop along, my hearties! Hobbits! Ponies all! We are fond of parties. Once the hobbits can see the house, they hear: Hey now! merry dol! We'll be waiting for you!ģ. Fear no alder black! Heed no hoary willow! Fear neither root nor bough! Tom goes on before you. When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open, Out of the window-panes light will twinkle yellow. Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping. Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle! Tom's going on ahead candles for to kindle. After Tom has freed Merry and Pippin, he goes on ahead to his house, outdistancing the hobbits. Hey! Come derry dol! Can you hear me singing?Ģ.
Tom's going home again water-lilies bringing. Can you hear him singing? Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o! Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o! Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away! Tom's in a hurry now.
Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight, Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter, Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. The hobbits then hear a string of apparently nonsense-words followed by: Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!ġ. The first part is what Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee hear while Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took are stuck in Old Man Willow in the Old Forest: Tom Bombadil's Songs are in the index of The Lord of the Rings, all listed as one continuous song.
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