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BURD ELLEN AND YOUNG TAMLANE
BURD ELLEN AND YOUNG TAMLANE
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Maidment's North Countrie Garland, 1824, p. 21. Communicated by R. Pitcairn, “from the recitation of a female relative, who had heard it frequently sung in her childhood,” about sixty years before the above date.
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Burd Ellen sits in her bower windowe,With a double laddy double, and for the double dow
Twisting the red silk and the blue.
With the double rose and the May-hay
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And whiles she twisted, and whiles she twan,And whiles the tears fell down amang.
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Till once there by cam Young Tamlane:‘Come light, oh light, and rock your young son.’
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‘If you winna rock him, you may let him rair,For I hae rockit my share and mair.’
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Young Tamlane to the seas he's gane,And a' women's curse in his company's gane.
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