I watched the corpse, mysel alane;

I watched his body night and day;

No living creature came that way.

I took his body on my back,

And whiles I gaed, and whiles I sat;

I digged a grave, and laid him in,

And happed him with the sod sae green.

But think na' ye my heart was sair,

When I laid the moul' on his yellow hair?

O, think na' ye my heart was wae,