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Margmac Origins: The Dewy Dens of Yarrow (44) Lyr Add: THE DEWY DELLS OF YARROW 20 Jan 00


A version collected by Helen Hartness Flanders appears on my CD Ballads Thrice Twisted, as follows

The Dewy Dells of Yarrow
Child 214 as sung by Belle Richards, of Colebrook NH 1941 for the Flanders collection

"O sister I can read your dream,
In mortal grief and sorrow
Your true love John he lies dead and gone
In the Dewy Dells of Yarrow

She wrung her hands and tore her hair
In mortal grief and sorrow
She tore a blue ribbon from off her hair
That she had received in Yarrow

Then up the hill and down the dale
And through the stream so narrow
It was there she found her true love John
Lying dead and gone in Yarrow

Her hair it was three quarters long
The color it was yellow
She tied it round his waist so small
And she bore him home from Yarrow

"Oh daughter dear" her father cried
"Why mourn in grief and sorrow?
I can wed you to a much nobler man
Than the one you loved in Yarrow"

"O father dear, you have seven sons
You can wed them all tomorrow
But the fairest flower that blooms in June
Is the one I loved in Yarrow"


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