Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 95
The Maid Freed From the Gallows
Version F

Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, VI, 476, 1882: "sung in Forfarshire, forty years ago."

Narrative

TOP,   stop, . . .
. . . . .
I think I see my father coming,
. . . . .
2   'O hae ye brocht my silken cloak,
Or my golden key?
Or hae ye come to see he hanged,
On this green gallows-tree?'
3   'I've neither brocht your silken cloak,
Nor your golden key,
But I have come to see you hanged,
On this green gallows-tree.'
* * * * *
4   'I've neither brocht your silken cloak,
Nor your golden key,
But I am come to set you free
From this green gallows-tree.'

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