Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 95
The Maid Freed From the Gallows
Version H

  1. aring-Gould's Appendix to Henderson's Notes on the Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders, 1866, p. 333, Yorkshire,
  2. Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, X, 354, 1884.

Narrative

1   'Stop, stop! ...
. . . . .
I think I see my mother coming,
. . . . .
2   'Oh mother, hast brought my golden ball,
And come to set me free?
. . . . .
. . . . .
3   'I've neither brought thy golden ball,
Nor come to set thee free,
But I have come to see thee hung,
Upon this gallows-tree.'
4   'Stop, stop! . . .
. . . . .
I think I see my father coming,
. . . . .
5   'O father, hast brought my golden ball,
And come to set me free?
. . . . .
. . . . .
6   'I've neither brought thy golden ball,
Nor come to set thee free,
But I have come to see thee hung,
Upon this gallows-tree.'
7   'Stop, stop! . . .
. . . . .
I see my sweet-heart coming,
. . . . .
8   'Sweet-heart, hast brought my golden ball,
And come to set me free?
. . . . .
. . . . .
9   'Aye, I have brought thy golden ball,
And come to set thee free;
I have not come to see thee hung,
Upon this gallows-tree.'

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