THE TWA SISTERS—S
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Kinloch MSS, vi, 89, in Kinloch's hand.
1
‘O father, father, swims a swan,’
This story I'll vent to thee
‘O father, father, swims a swan,
Unless it be some dead woman.’
I'll prove true to my true love,
If my love prove true to me
2
The miller he held out his long fish hook,
And hooked this fair maid from the brook.
3
She offered the miller a gold ring stane
To throw her into the river again.
4
Down she sunk, and away she swam,
Until she came to her father's brook.
5
The miller was hung at his mill-gate,
For drowning of my sister Kate.
