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

by Unknown

And he’s ta’en up the scarlet cloak,

And the birk and the broom blooms bonnie.

He’s gi’en him his auld pike-staff and hat,

With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan;

And he was right weel paid for that,

And the birk and the broom blooms bonnie.

The auld beggar-man was bound for the mill,

With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan;

But Young Hynd Horn for the King’s ain hall,

And the birk and the broom blooms bonnie.