5

‘O in my bower, Willie, there is a wake,

And in the wake there is a wan;

But I’ll come to the green wood the morn,

To the green wood for thy name’s sake.’

6

O she has gaen to her bed again,

And a wait she has lain till the cock crew thrice;

Then she said to her sisters baith,

Lasses, ’tis time for us to rise.