Does this make it any more understandable?

The cow's come home, but I see not my honey;
the cow's come home, but I see not my bairn;
I'd rather lose all the cows than lose my bairn.
Fair faced is my honey, his blue eyes are bonny;
his hair in curled ringlets hung sweet to the sight;
O mount the old pony, seek after my honey;
and bring to his mammy her only delight.

He's always out roamin' the long summer's day through;
he's always out roamin' away from the farm;
through hedges and ditches and valleys and fellsides;
I hope that my honey will come to no harm.
Well, I've searched in the meadow and in the far acre;
through stockyard and byre, but naught could I find;
so off ye go, daddy, seek after your laddie;
bring back to his mammy some peace to her mind.

Well, I rode down the beck and along the old lonnen
as far as the sheep stell, and up to Crag height;
I searched all the way, but I still havent't found him;
but don't you fret, mother, I'm sure he's allright.
He could be in the woods after Robson's horse chestnuts or pickin' crab-apples on Laidler's Fell;
or maybe he's somewhere about in the buildings;
he'd not leave without saying, you know very well

Well, look you here, Mother, we found the wee rascal
and you'll never guess where the young devil got-
asleep in Ben's manger with Jess and her puppies;
as safe and as snug as he does in his cot.
He left all the flowers he'd picked on the wallend
and the other treasures I found there as well;
a dead butterfly and some pheasant's tail feathers;
some purple sloe berries and a blackbird's eggshell.

The cow's come home, and I found my bit laddie;
the cows comes home, and I found my bit bairn.
Thank goodness he's safe, my wee precious jewel;
tucked up in the stable and come to no harm.
Now sit ye down, Daddy, tuck in to your supper,
it's your favourite bait, hot taties and meat,
and a bit for the bairn, to grow like his Daddy;
now my family's safe and home for the night.

"bairn" is "child" "stell" I imagine is "pasture"
^^