24
'What will you leave your brother John? '
'The gallows-tree to hang him on.'
25
'What will you leave your brother's wife?'
'Grief and sorrow to end her life.'
Burden in all but 1, 2, 13, lilly hey; in 16, 17, 18, spring sweetlie; in 22, smell sweetlie.
M
Campbell MSS, II, 26.
1
There was three ladies playing at the ba,
With a hay and a lilly gay
A gentleman cam amang them a'.
And the roses grow sweet aye
2
The first of them was clad in yellow,
And he askd at her gin she'd be his marrow.
3
The next o them was clad in green;
He askd at her gin she'd be his queen.
4
The last o them [was] clad in red;
He askd at her gin she'd be his bride.
5
'Have ye asked at my father dear?
Or have ye asked my mother dear?