[142]. O waly, waly. This ballad was first published in Allan Ramsay’s Tea Table Miscellany, 1724.
[I. 8. ‘Sae my true love did lichtlie me.’
II. 5–8. ‘O wherefore should I busk my heid,
Or wherefore should I kame my hair?
For my true love has me forsook,
And says he’ll never lo’e me mair.’
III. 2, 8. ‘The sheets sall ne’er be press’d by me
For of my life I am wearie.’
V. 7–8. ‘And I mysel’ were dead and gane,
And the green grass growing over me!‘]