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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.
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54 THE CHERRY-TREE CAROL
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55 THE CARNAL AND THE CRANE
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56 DIVES AND LAZARUS
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57 BROWN ROBYN'S CONFESSION
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58 SIR PATRICK SPENS
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59 SIR ALDINGAR
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60 KING ESTMERE
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61 SIR CAWLINE
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62 FAIR ANNIE
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63 CHILD WATERS
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64 FAIR JANET
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65 LADY MAISRY
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66 LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
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67 GLASGERION
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68 YOUNG HUNTING
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69 CLERK SAUNDERS
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70 WILLIE AND LADY MAISRY
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71 THE BENT SAE BROWN
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72 THE CLERK'S TWA SONS O OWSENFORD
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73 LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET
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74 FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM
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75 LORD LOVEL
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76 THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL
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77 SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST
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78 THE UNQUIET GRAVE
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79 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL
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80 OLD ROBIN OF PORTINGALE
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81 LITTLE MUSGRAVE AND LADY BARNARD
  
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82 THE BONNY BIRDY
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Johnny Cock

JOHNIE COCK—B

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Pieces of Ancient Poetry from Unpublished Manuscripts and Scarce Books, Bristol, 1814, p. 53.

1

Fifteen foresters in the Braid alow,
And they are wondrous fell;
To get a drop of Johnny's heart-bluid,
They would sink a' their souls to hell.

2

Johnny Cock has gotten word of this,
And he is wondrous keen;
He['s] custan off the red scarlet,
And on the Linkum green.

3

And he is ridden oer muir and muss,
And over mountains high,
Till he came to yon wan water,
And there Johnny Cock did lie.

4

They have ridden oer muir and muss,
And over mountains high,
Till they met wi' an old palmer,
Was walking along the way.

5

‘What news, what news, old palmer?
What news have you to me?’
‘Yonder is one of the proudest wed sons
That ever my eyes did see.’
[OMITTED]

6

He's taen out a horn from his side,
And he blew both loud and shrill,
Till a' the fifteen foresters
Heard Johnny Cock blaw his horn.

7

They have sworn a bluidy oath,
And they swore all in one,
That there was not a man among them a'
Would blaw such a blast as yon.

8

And they have ridden oer muir and muss,
And over mountains high,
Till they came to yon wan water,
Where Johnny Cock did lie.

9

They have shotten little Johnny Cock,
A little above the ee:
[OMITTED]
‘For doing the like to me.

10

‘There's not a wolf in a' the wood
Woud'ha' done the like to me;
'She'd ha' dipped her foot in coll water,
And strinkled above my ee,
And if I would not have waked for that,
'She'd ha' gane and let me be.

11

‘But fingers five, come here, [come here,]
And faint heart fail me nought,
And silver strings, value me sma things,
Till I get all this vengeance rowght!’

12

He ha[s] shot a' the fifteen foresters,
Left never a one but one,
And he broke the ribs a that ane's side,
And let him take tiding home.

13

‘[OMITTED] a bird in a' the wood
Could sing as I could say,
It would go in to my mother's bower,
And bid her kiss me, and take me away.’
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