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

by Unknown

The eldest she was vexed sair,

Binnorie, O Binnorie;

And sore envied her sister fair;

By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.

The eldest said to the youngest ane,

Binnorie, O Binnorie;

“Will ye go and see your father’s ships come in?”—

By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.

She’s ta’en her by the lily hand,

Binnorie, O Binnorie;