Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
Variant 28
1
BURD ELLEN sits in her bower windowe,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
Twisting the red silk and the blue.
With the double rose and the May-hay
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
Twisting the red silk and the blue.
With the double rose and the May-hay
2
And whiles she twisted, and whiles she twan,
And whiles the tears fell down amang.
And whiles the tears fell down amang.
3
Till once there by cam Young Tamlane:
`Come light, oh light, and rock your young son.'
`Come light, oh light, and rock your young son.'
4
`If you winna rock him, you may let him rair,
For I hae rockit my share and mair.'
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For I hae rockit my share and mair.'
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5
Young Tamlane to the seas he's gane,
And a' women's curse in his company's gane.
And a' women's curse in his company's gane.
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