6
'What did she boil it in, Willie doo, Willie doo?'
'She boild it in the billy-pot; die shall I now!'
7
'What gaed she you for to drink, Willie doo, Willie doo?
What gaed she you for to drink, Willie, my doo?'
8
'She gaed me hemlock stocks; make my bed, lay me down;
Made in the brewing pot; die shall I now!'
9
They made his bed, laid him down, poor Willie doo, Willie doo;
He turnd his face to the wa; he 's dead now!
M.
Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1870, p. 51. "Mrs Lockhart's copy."
1
'Where hae ye been a' the day, my bonny wee croodin doo?'
'O I hae been at my stepmother's house; make my bed, mammie, now, now, now,
Make my bed, mammie, now!'
2
'Where did ye get your dinner?' my, etc.
'I got it at my stepmother's;' make, etc.
3
'What did she gie ye to your dinner?'
'She gae me a little four-footed fish.'
4
'Where got she the four-footed fish?'
'She got it down in yon well strand;' O make, etc.