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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 246
Redesdale and Wise William
Version C

Kinloch Manuscripts, V, 423.

Narrative

1   Redesdale and Clerk William
Sat drinking at the wine;
They hae fawn a wagering them atween
At a wanhappy time.
2   'What will ye wad,' says Redesdale,
'O what will ye wad wi me
That there's na a lady in a' the land
But I wad win wi ae blink o my ee?'

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