Maidment's North Countrie Garland, 1824, p. 21. Communicated
by R. Pitcairn, "from the recitation of a female relative, who
had heard it frequently sung in her childhood," about sixty years
before the above date.
| 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 |
| 2 |
And whiles she twisted, and whiles she twan,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
And whiles the tears fell down amang.
With the double rose and the May-hay |
| 3 |
Till once there by cam Young Tamlane:
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
'Come light, oh light, and rock your young son.'
With the double rose and the May-hay |
| 4 |
'If you winna rock him, you may let him rair,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
For I hae rockit my share and mair.'
With the double rose and the May-hay
* * * * * |
| 5 |
Young Tamlane to the seas he's gane,
With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
And a' women's curse in his company's gane.
With the double rose and the May-hay |
