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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 155
Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter
Version Q

Motherwell's Note-Book, p. 54, as sung by Widow Michael, an old woman in Barhead.

Narrative

1   A' the bairns o Lincolnshire
Were learning at the school,
And every Saturday at een
They learnt their lessons weel.
2   The Jew's dochter sat in her bower-door,
Sewing at her seam;
She spied a' the bonnie bairns,
As they cam out and hame.

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