RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE—B
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a. Cromek's Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196; eighth
and ninth stanzas of a fragment sent William Tytler by
Burns in 1790. b. Stenhouse's edition of the Musical
Museum, 1853, IV, 464.
1
She sought him east, she sought him west,
She sought him braid and narrow,
Till in the clintin of a craig
She found him drownd in Yarrow.
2
She's taen three links of her yellow hair,
That hung down lang and yellow,
And she's tied it about sweet Willie's waist,
An drawn him out o Yarrow.
