For they’ve bygit the ewe-bught far frae hame,
An they’ve trysted a man to me.
9
‘There came a tod unto the bucht,
An a waefu tod was he,
An, or ever he had tane that ae ewe-lamb,
I had rather he had tane ither three.’
10
But it fell on a day, an a bonny summer day,
She was ca’in out her father’s kye,