Here is another ballad—"The Water o Wearie's Well,"—of a similar pattern. But in this the drowner of the King's daughters himself finds a "watery grave":
There came a bird out o a bush,
On water for to dine,
An sighing sair, says the king's daughter,
"O wae's this heart o mine!"
He's taen a harp into his hand,
He's harped them all asleep,
Except it was the king's daughter,
Who one wink couldna get.
He's luppen on his berry-brown steed,