Story-Telling Ballads / Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading

by Unknown

THE BIRTH O’ ROBIN HOOD

And mony ane sings o’ grass, o’ grass,

And mony ane sings o’ corn;

And mony ane sings o’ Robin Hood,

Kens little whare he was born.

It wasna in the ha’, the ha’,

Nor in the painted bower;

But it was in the gude green wood,

Amang the lily flower.

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