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7 There was blood in the chaumer,
and blood in the ha,
And blood in his ladie's room,
which he liked warst of a'.
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M
a. Dr Joseph Robertson's Note-Book, Adversaria, p. 60, from tradition. b. Kinloch MSS, VI, 31, in Dr Robertson's handwriting.
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1 But it fell out upon a day
Lord Wearie was to gae frae hame,
And he has left his lady gay
In his castell to stay her lane.
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2 Lamkin rocked,
and fausse nourice sang,
And a' the four tors o the cradle
red blood sprang.
3 'O still my bairn, nourice,
O still him wi the wan:
'He winna still, lady,
for a' his father's lan.'