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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