26
The first tune he did play and sing,
Was, 'Farewell to my father the king.'
27
The nextin tune that he playd syne,
Was, 'Farewell to my mother the queen.'
28
The lasten tune that he playd then,
Was, 'Wae to my sister, fair Ellen.'
C.
Scott's Minstrelsy, 1802, II; 143. Compounded from B b and a fragment of fourteen stanzas transcribed from the recitation of an old woman by Miss Charlotte Brooke.
1
There were two sisters sat in a bour;
Binnorie, O Binnorie
There came a knight to be their wooer.
By the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie
2
He courted the eldest with glove and ring,
But he loed the youngest aboon a' thing.
3
He courted the eldest with broach and knife,
But he loed the youngest aboon his life.
4
The eldest she was vexed sair,
And sore envied her sister fair.