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

by Unknown

“O father, father, draw your dam!

Binnorie, O Binnorie;

There’s either a mermaid, or a milk-white swan.”—

By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.

The miller hasted and drew his dam,

Binnorie, O Binnorie;

And there he found a drown’d woman;

By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.

You could not see her yellow hair,

Binnorie, O Binnorie;