Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 38
The Wee Wee Man
Version D

Kinloch Manuscripts, VII, 253. From Mrs. Elder.

Narrative

1   As I gaed out to tak a walk,
Atween the water and the wa,
There I met wi a wee wee man,
The weest man that ere I saw.
2   Thick and short was his legs,
And sma and thin was his thie,
And atween his een a flee might gae,
And atween his shouthers were inches three.
3   And he has tane up a muckle stane,
And thrown it farther than I coud see;
If I had been as strong as ere Wallace was,
I coud na lift it to my knie.
4   'O,' quo I, 'But ye be strong!
And O where may your dwelling be?'
'It's down in to yon bonnie glen;
Gin ye dinna believe, ye can come and see.'
5   And we rade on, and we sped on,
Till we cam to yon bonny glen,
And there we lichted and louted in,
And there we saw a dainty dame.
6   There was four and twenty wating on her,
And ilka ane was clad in green,
And he had been the king of fair Scotland,
The warst o them micht hae been his queen.
7   There war pipers playing on ilka stair,
And ladies dancing in ilka ha,
But before ye coud hae sadd what was that,
The house and wee manie was awa.

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