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Mary Hamilton
MARY HAMILTON—L
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Doun and cam the queen hersell,Wi the goud links in her hair:
‘O what did you do wi the braw lad bairn
That I heard greet sae sair?’
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‘There was never a babe into my room,Nor ever intends to be;
It was but a fit o the sair colic,
That was like to gar me die.’
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Doun and cam the king himsell,And an angry man was he:
‘If ye had saved that braw child's life,
It might hae been an honour to thee.’
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They socht the chamer up and doun,And in below the bed,
And there they fand a braw lad-bairn
Lying lapperin in his blood.
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She rowed it up in her apron green,And threw it in the sea:
‘Een sink or swim, you braw lad bairn!
Ye'll neer get mair o me.’
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When she gaed up the Cannogate,She gied loud lauchters three;
But or she cam to the Cowgate Head
The tears did blind her ee.
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‘Come a' ye jovial sailors,That sail upon the sea,
Tell neither my father nor mother
The death that I'm to die!
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‘Come a' ye jovial sailors,That sail upon the main,
See that ye tell baith my father and mother
That I'm coming sailing hame!
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‘My father he's the Duke of York,And my mother's a gay ladie,
And I mysell a pretty fair lady,
And the king fell in love with me.’
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