Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

223. Eppie Morrie

P. 239. Collated with a Manuscript of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's, and with another copy of the same pieces, "North Country Ballads," in Miscellanea Curiosa, Abbotsford Library.

Sharpe, p. 21.  12. all.
13. away.
14. Because.
21. Out it.
22. moonlighty.
31,2. Hald.
34. That shall be wedded.
51. He has.
52. it wanting.
53. Says, Marry.
61,2, 71,2, 101,2, 15i1,3. Hold.
64. be married.
73. dare not avow to marrying.
74. she were.
82. could not.
83. are away.
91. bells was.
92. all men bound.
101,2, 151,2. away from.
103. I loss.
123. Scallater.
131. Says, Get.
134. sure I am: as ye.
141. fall.
142. you could not.
143. taken.
144. kis[s]ed your hand.
153. For there's.
154. that's be wedded to me.
161. in it came Belbardlane.
163. Says, come away home.
172. And get to me.
174. came.
182. and hey the light.
Written in long lines, without division into stanzas.
Scott.  Norrie throughout.
22. moonlight.
163. home wanting.

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