Lore: None Arrangement: Arrangements vary. Usually, the vocalist is accompanied by harp, liltrum, or trill. Range: Soprano or Alto Attribution: Traditional Folk Notes: None Lyrics: Six skeins and three, six skeins and three Good mother, so you stinted me And here they be, - aye, six skeins and three. Stop, busy wheel! Stop, noisy wheel! Long shadows down my chamber steel, And warn me to make haste and reel. 'Tis done - the spinning work complete, Oh heart of mine, what makes you beat So fast and sweet, so fast and sweet.