B

Finlay’s Scottish Ballads, 1808, I, xxxiii.

1

Saddled and briddled

and booted rade he;

Toom hame cam the saddle,

but never cam he.

2

Down cam his auld mither,

greetin fu sair,

And down cam his bonny wife,

wringin her hair.

3

Saddled and briddled

and booted rade he;

Toom hame cam the saddle,

but never cam he.