Earl Patricke Spensse
SIR PATRICK SPENS—N
[_]
Noted down from a female servant, by Joseph Robertson,
July 15, 1829, Adversaria, p. 67.
1
Ower and ower by Aberdour
There's mony a cloudy stone,
And there is mony a gude lord's son
I fear will never come home.
2
Lang, lang will his lady look,
Wi her baby in her arms,
But she'll never see Earl Patrick Spens
Com walkin up the stran.
3
‘I have a table in my room,
It cost me guineas nine;
I wad sink it in the sea
For ae sight o dry lan.
4
‘There's a coat o green velvet on my back,
I got it for my fee;
But tho I wad gie ten thousan punds,
Dry land I will never see.’
