Campbell Manuscripts, II, 264.
Percy Papers, with no account of the derivation.
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As I lookit oer my father's castle wa,
All alone and alone O
I saw two pretty babes playing at the ba.
Down by yon green-wood sidie |
| 2 |
'O pretty babes, gin ye were mine,'
Hey the loch o the Loanie
'I would clead ye o the silk sae fine.'
Down by that green-wood sidie |
| 3 |
'O sweet darlings, gin ye were mine,'
Hey the loch o the Loanie
'I would feed ye on the morning's milk.'
Down by the green-wood sidie |
| 4 |
'O mither dear, when we were thine,'
By the lock o the Loanie
'Ye neither dressd us wi silk nor twine.'
Down by this green-wood sidie |
| 5 |
'But ye tuke out your little pen-knife,'
By the lock o the Loanie
'And there ye tuke yer little babes' life.'
Down by the, etc. |
| 6 |
'O mither dear, when this ye had done,'
Alone by the lock o the Loanie
'Ye unkirtled yersel, and ye wrapt us in 't.'
Down by the lock o the Loanie |
| 7 |
'Neist ye houkit a hole fornent the seen.'
All alone and alone O
'And tearless ye stappit your little babes in'
Down by the lock o the Loanie |
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'But we are in the heavens high,'
And far frae the loch o the Loanie
'But ye hae the pains o hell to d[r]ie.'
Before ye leave the green-wood sidie |
