I.
a. Buchan's MS., II, 111. b. Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 217. c. Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs, I, 106.
1
The minister's daughter of New York,
Hey wi the rose and the lindie, O
Has faen in love wi her father's clerk.
Alone by the green burn sidie, O
2
She courted him six years and a day,
At length her belly did her betray.
3
She did her down to the greenwood gang,
To spend awa a while o her time.
4
She lent her back unto a thorn,
And she's got her twa bonny boys born.
5
She 's taen the ribbons frae her hair,
Bound their bodyes fast and sair.
6
She 's put them aneath a marble stane,
Thinking a maiden to gae hame.
7
Looking oer her castle wa,
She spied her bonny boys at the ba.
8
'O bonny babies, if ye were mine,
I woud feed you with the white bread and wine.