Hi,

Just when I though I had all the Carpenter versions of Child 2 another pops up:

From:(VWML Song Index SN24452) Carpenter Collection 04816

True Love of Mine- sung by Mrs. Mary Stewart Robertson of New Deer, about 1930 learned from Christina Stewart Robertson 50 years ago.

Come a' you young maids that's sittin' by me,
Let every rose grow merry in thyme,
Ye'll buy tae me a white holland shirt,
An saw [sow] it a' up wi' oot[1] needle work,
Afore ye be a true lover of mine.

Ye'll wash it up in yonder well
Where water ne'er sprung nor dew ne'er fell.

An' ye'll dry it on yonder thorn
The bush that was rotten before Adam wis born.

Ye'll buy tae me an acre o' land
Atwen the saut water and the sea sand,

Ye'll plow it up wi' ae ram's horn
An saw [sow] it a' doon wi' a pill o' corn.

An' ye'll shear it doon wi' a peacock's feather,
An' ye'll mak it weel up wi' the sting o' an adder [tongue of an adder]

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1. written in by hand looks like, "without"

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Richie