a. Herd’s Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, 1769, p. 308. b. Johnson’s Museum, No 110, p. 113.
1
It was on an evning sae saft and sae clear
A bonny lass was milking the kye,
And by came a troup of gentlemen,
And rode the bonny lassie by.
2
Then one of them said unto her,
‘Bonny lass, prythee shew me the way:’
‘O if I do sae, it may breed me wae,