The Braes o Yarrow
No: 214; variant: 214[R]
- There were three lords drinking at the wine
In 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?'
- 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 her thrust his body thorogh.
- 'I dreamed . . . .
I wis it prove nae sorrow!
I dreamed I was puing the apples green
In the dowie howms o Yarrow.'
- '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.'
- 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.
- 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.