Christie’s Traditional Ballad Airs, I, 100; from three copies, two in Banffshire, and one in Aberdeenshire.

1

’Twas in the pleasant month of June,

When woods and valleys a’ grow green,

And valiant ladies walk alane,

While Phoebus shines soe clearly.

And valiant ladies, etc.

2

Out-ower yon den I spied a swain,

Wi a shepherd’s club into his han;