Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 209
Geordie
Version M

Motherwell's Note-Book, pp. 2, 1; from Miss Brown, sister of Dr. James Brown, of Glasgow.

Narrative

1   When he came out at the tolbooth-stair,
He was baith red and rosy;
But gin he cam to the gallows-fit,
He was wallourt like the lily.

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