1 'When we were sisters seven,
An five of us deyd wi child,
And there is nane but you and I, Mazery,
And we'll go madens mild.'
2 But there came knights, and there came squiers,
An knights of high degree;
She pleasd hersel in Levieston,
Thay wear a comly twa.
3 He has bought her rings for her fingers,
And garlands for her hair,
The broochis till her bosome braid;
What wad my love ha mair?
And he has brought her on to Livingston,
And made her lady thear.
4 She had na been in Liveingston
A twelvemonth and a day,
Till she was as big wi bairn
As ony lady could gae.
5 The knight he knocked his white fingers,
The goude rings flew in twa:
'Halls and bowers they shall go wast
Ere my bonny love gie awa!'
6 The knight he knocked his white fingers,
The goude rings flew in foure:
'Halls and bowers they shall go waste
Eren my bonny lady gie it ore!'
7 The knight he knocked his white fingers,
The lady sewed and sung;
It was to comfort Lady Mazery,
But her life-days wear na long.
8 'O whare will I get a bonny boy,
That will win both hoos and shoon,
That will win his way to Little Snoddown,
To my mother, the Queen?'
9 Up and stands a bonny boy,
Goude yellow was his hair;
I wish his mother mickle grace at him,
And his trew-love mickle mare.
10 'Here am I a bonny boy,
That will win baith hoos an shoon,
That will win my way to Little Snoddown,
To thy mother, the Queen.'