Story-Telling Ballads / Selected and Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Boys' and Girls' Own Reading

by Unknown

THE SANDS OF DEE

“O Mary, go and call the cattle home,

And call the cattle home,

And call the cattle home

Across the sands of Dee;”

The western wind was wild and dank wi’ foam,

And all alone went she.

The western tide crept up along the sand.

And o’er and o’er the sand,