Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 100
Willie o Winesberry
Version E

Notes and Queries, Fifth Series, VII, 387, 1877: communicated by B. Montgomerie Ranking, as "heard sung years ago by a West Country fisherman."

Narrative

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'OH daughter, oh daughter,' her father he said,
'What makes you look so pale?
. . . . .
Or are you in love with any man?'
2   . . . . .
. . . . .
'But if it be one of my own sailor lads,
High hanged he shall be.'
3   Johnnie Barbour he cam doun the stair,
His shirt was of the silk;
His two bonnie black een were rolling in his head,
And his skin was as white as milk.
4   'Oh are you ready to marry my daughter,
And take her by the hand,
And to eat and drink with me at the table,
And be heir of all my land?'
5   'Oh it's I am ready to marry your daughter,
And take her by the hand,
And to eat and drink with her at the table,
And to fight for all your land.'

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