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God send euery gentleman,
Such haukes, such hounds, and such a leman.
b.
Three ravens sat upon a tree,
Hey down, hey derry day
Three ravens sat upon a tree,
Hey down
Three ravens sat upon a tree,
And they were black as black could be.
And sing lay doo and la doo and day
Variations of The Twa Corbies.
b.
1.
As I cam by yon auld house end,
I saw twa corbies sittin thereon.
21. Whare but by yon new fa'en birk.
3.
We'll sit upon his bonny breast-bane,
And we'll pick out his bonny gray een;
We'll set our claws intil his yallow hair,
And big our bowr, it's a' blawn bare.
4.
My mother clekit me o an egg,
And brought me up i the feathers gray,
And bade me flee whereer I wad,
For winter wad be my dying day.