O tell me where thy dwelling be?"

"My dwelling's down at yon bonny bower;

O will you go with me and see?"

On we lap, and awa' we rade,

Till we came to yon bonny green;

We lighted down for to bait our horse,

And out there came a lady fine.

Four and twenty at her back,

And they were a' clad out in green;

Though the King of Scotland had been there,