B

a. Cromek’s Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196; eighth and ninth stanzas of a fragment sent William Tytler by Burns in 1790. b. Stenhouse’s edition of the Musical Museum, 1853, IV, 464.

1

She sought him east, she sought him west,

She sought him braid and narrow,

Till in the clintin of a craig

She found him drownd in Yarrow.

2

She’s taen three links of her yellow hair,

That hung down lang and yellow,

And she’s tied it about sweet Willie’s waist,

An drawn him out o Yarrow.