Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

215. Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow,
or,
The Water o Gamrie

B. b.  "The editor has often heard the following additional stanza [the second], though it is omitted by Thomson."
21. links o her gowden locks.
23. She 's tied them about.
D.  Not divided into stanzas in the Manuscript
E.  Variations in Christie, I, 66:
21-3. ye'll.
61. O Willie 's.
73. And there were mair than threescore and ten.
144. at Gamery.
152. Where she had ribbons.
153. And tore them a' and let
154. And syne she ran.
164. 'T was there.
171. She straiked back.
174. We'll baith sleep.
G.  61. Originally But out
H.  22. bound the bridgestyle.

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