| 1 |
There lies a lady in London,
All alone and alone ee
She's gane wi bairn to the clerk's son.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 2 |
She's taen her mantle her about,
All alone and alone ee
She's gane aff to the gude green wood.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 3 |
She's set her back untill an oak,
All alone and alone ee
First it bowed and then it broke.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 4 |
She's set her back untill a tree,
All alone and alone ee
Bonny were the twa boys she did bear.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 5 |
But she took out a little pen-knife,
All alone and alone ee
And she parted them and their sweet life.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 6 |
She's aff untill her father's ha;
All alone and alone ee
She was the lealest maiden that was amang them a'.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 7 |
As she lookit oure the castle wa,
All alone and alone ee
She spied twa bonnie boys playing at the ba.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 8 |
'O if these two babes were mine,
All alone and alone ee
They should wear the silk and the sabelline!'
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 9 |
'O mother dear, when we were thine,
All alone and alone ee
We neither wore the silks nor the sabelline.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 10 |
'But out ye took a little pen-knife,
All alone and alone ee
And ye parted us and our sweet life.
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
| 11 |
'But now we're in the heavens hie,
All alone and alone ee
And ye've the pains o hell to drie.'
Down by the green wood sae bonnie |
