She sought him east, she sought him west,
She sought him brade and narrow;
Sine, in the clifting of a craig,
She found him drownd in Yarrow.
B
a. Cromek’s Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196; eighth and ninth stanzas of a fragment sent William Tytler by Burns in 1790. b. Stenhouse’s edition of the Musical Museum, 1853, IV, 464.
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She sought him east, she sought him west,
She sought him braid and narrow,