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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 21
The Maid and the Palmer
Version B

A Ballad Book, by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, edited by David Laing, p. 157 f, VII; from Sir W. Scott's recollection.

Narrative

1   'Seven years ye shall be a stone,
      . . . . .
For many a poor palmer to rest him upon.
      And you the fair maiden of Gowden-gane
2   'Seven years ye'll be porter of hell,
      . . . . .
And then I'll take you to mysell.'
      And you the fair maiden of Gowden-gane
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3   'Weel may I be a' the other three,
      . . . . .
But porter of hell I never will be.'
      And I the fair maiden of Gowden-gane

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