The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Edited by Francis James Child. |
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Willy's rare and Willy's fair
RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE—A
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‘Willy's rare, and Willy's fair,And Willy's wondrous bony,
And Willy heght to marry me,
Gin eer he marryd ony.
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‘Yestreen I made my bed fu brade,The night I'll make it narrow,
For a' the live-long winter's night
I lie twin'd of my marrow.
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‘O came you by yon water-side?Pu'd you the rose or lilly?
Or came you by yon meadow green?
Or saw you my sweet Willy?’
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She sought him east, she sought him west,She sought him brade and narrow;
Sine, in the clifting of a craig,
She found him drownd in Yarrow.
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