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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 83
Child Maurice
Version G

Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 18; Jamieson, in The Scots Magazine, 1803, LXV, 698, stanzas 1, 3.

Narrative

1   Gil Morrice sat in silver wood,
He whistled and he sang:
'Whar sall I get a bonny boy
My errand for to gang?'
2   He ca'd his foster-brither Willie:
'Come, win ye hose and shoon,
And gae unto Lord Barnard's ha,
And bid his lady come.'
* * * * *
3   And she has taen the bloody head,
And cast it i the brim,
Syne gathered up her robes o green,
And fast she followed him.

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