Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 173
Mary Hamilton
Version R

Burns, in a letter to Mrs. Dunlop, January 25, 1790; Carrie, II, 290, 1800.

Narrative

1   Little did my mother think,
That day she cradled me,
What land I was to travel in,
Or what death I should die!

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