He stretched her owt-our the bra
And moanëd her wi mekle wa.
“Then, at the end, introduce the following” (which, however, are not traditional).
The last tune the harp did sing,
‘And yonder stands my false sister Alison.
‘O listen, listen, all my kin,
’Twas she wha drownd me in the lin.’
And when the harp this song had done
It brast a’ o pieces oer the stane.
“Alison. The writer of these additional stanzas understands the name was Alison, and not Helen.” Alison occurs in D, K.