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THE BRAES O YARROW—R
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Macmath MS. p. 91. Inserted in a copy of The Scottish Ballads ... by Robert Chambers, 1829, p. 145, latterly belonging to Rev. Dr James C. Burns, Free Church, Kirkliston.
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‘There were three lords drinking at the wineIn the Leader Haughs of Yarrow:
‘Shall we go play at cards and dice,
As we have done before, O?
Or shall we go play at the single sword,
In the Leader Haughs of Yarrow?’
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Three he wounded, and five he slew,As he had [done] before, O,
But an English lord lap from a bush,
And he proved all the sorrow;
He had a spear three quarters long,
And he thrust his body thorogh.
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‘I dreamed [OMITTED]I wis it prove nae sorrow!
I dreamed I was puing the apples green
In the dowie howms o Yarrow.’
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‘O sister, sister, I'll read your dream,And I'll read it in sorrow;
Ye may gae bring hame your ain true-love,
For he's sleepin sound in Yarrow.’
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She sought him east, she sought him west,She sought him all the forest thorogh;
She found him asleep at the middle yett,
In the dowie howms o Yarrow.
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Her hair it was three quarters lang,And the colour of it was yellow;
She's bound it round his middle waist,
And borne him hame from Yarrow.
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