Child Ballads - Lyrics
Child 215
Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water o Gamrie
Version B
Cromek's Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196; eighth and ninth stanzas of a fragment sent William Tytler by Burns in 1790.
Stenhouse's edition of the Musical Museum, 1853, IV, 464.
Narrative
1
She
sought
him
east, she
sought
him
west
,
She
sought
him
braid
and
narrow,
Till
in
the
clintin
of
a craig
She
found
him
drownd
in
Yarrow.
2
She'
s
taen three links
of
her yellow hair,
That hung down
lang
and yellow,
And
she
's tied
it
about sweet Willie'
s
waist,
An
drawn
him
out
of Yarrow.
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