Hi, This version is mysteriously missing the ending-- from the James Madison Carpenter Collection, JMC/1/11/198, Disc Side 192, 01:41 "Binorie," sung by David Edwards of 84 High st. Cuninestown, Aberdeenshire. Learned in th Cornhill district about 1880. 1 There wis twa bonnie sisters lived in a glen, Binorie, O Binorie, The miller laddie cam a courtin' them, The bonnie miller lad o Binorie. 2 He courted the eldest wi' a gay gowd ring, Binorie, O Binorie, But he courted the youngest wi a far better thing, The bonnie miller's lass o Binorie, O. 3 "O sister, O sister, come an' tak a walk, Binorie, aye O Binorie, You'll maybe hear the blackbirds whistle ower his tune, Or see the bonnie miller's laddie o Binorie." 4 They walked up and they walked down, Binorie, O Binorie, Till the elder dang the younger into the dam, The deep milldam o Binorie. 5. O sister, dear sister, come lend me your hand, Binorie, O Binorie "I'll gie you my yellow gowd, likewise my land, And the bonnie miller lad o Binorie. 6. "It wisna for your yellow gowd that I dang ye in, Binorie O Binorie But ye are sae fair and I am sae very din, You're the bonnie miller's lass o Binorie." 7. She swimmed up, and she swimmed down, Binorie O Binorie, She sank to the bottom like a stone, In the deep milldam o Binorie. 8. The miller's servant girl, she's came out to the dam, Binorie, O Binorie It was for some water to wash the miller's hand, The bonnie miller lad o Binorie. 9. "O miller, dear miller, there's fish in your dam, Binorie, O Binorie For the white swan he swims rarely up an' down In the deep milldam o Binorie."
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