And the latter across the Atlantic:

"The minister's daughter of New York,

Hey with the rose and the Lindie, O,

Has fa'en in love wi' her father's clerk,

A' by the green burn sidie, O."

A Warwickshire version, on the contrary, places the scene on our own "native leas:"

"There was a lady lived on lea,

All alone, alone O,

Down the greenwood side went she,