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Child 214
The Braes o Yarrow
Version P

Cromek's Select Scotish Songs, 1810, 11,196, the seventh and tenth stanzas; sent by Burns to William Ty tier in 1790.

Narrative

1   'Get up, get up now, sister Ann,
I fear we've wrought you sorrow;
Get up, ye'll find your true love slain,
Among the banks of Yarrow.'
2   'I made my love a suit of clothes,
I clad him all in tartan,
But ere the morning sun arose,
He was a' bluid to the gartan.'

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