And what did he do with her two sides?
Why he made of them sides to his fiddle besides.
9
And what did he do with her great toes?
Why what he did with them that nobody knows.
Sing, O the damnd mill-dam, O
For 4, 5, 6, 7, see A 8, 9, 10, 13.
P. 137. MS. of Thomas Wilkie, p. 1, in “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 32; taken down “from a Miss Nancy Brockie, Bemerside.” 1813.
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There were twa sisters sat in a bower,