Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

24. Bonnie Annie

A.  Printed by Kinloch in four-line stanzas.
161. coffin off the Goats of Yerrow.
A.  B. 16. Motherwell, Minstrelsy, p. xcix, 146, gives the stanza thus:
They made his love a coffin of the gowd sae yellow,
They made his love a coffin of the gowd sae yellow,
And they buried her deep on the high banks of Yarrow.
Sing fal lal, de deedle, fal lal, de deedle lair, Oh a Day!

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