Up she gaes on yon high, high hill,

An a wat she gaes with sorrow,

An in a den she spy’d nine slain men,

In the dowie banks of Yarrow.

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‘O the last time I saw my love

He was a’ clad oer in tartan;

But now he’s a’ clad oer in red,

An he’s a’ blood to the gartin.’

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