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Thread #86297 Message #1603836
Posted By: Roberto
13-Nov-05 - 01:09 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Green Banks of Yarrow (#214 - Davenport)
Subject: Lyr Add: GREEN BANKS OF YARROW (Bob Davenport)
BOB DAVENPORT - the green banks of yarrow (Child n° 214), from The Red Haired Lad (no notes on the CD sleeve). PLEASE HELP ME COMPLETE THE 3d STANZA (and check the rest). Thank you. Roberto
There was a lady in the north You'd scarce could find her marrow She was courted by nine noble men And a plooboy lad from Yarrow
One night these nine they sat drinking wine They all swore that by the morrow The plooboy lad he'd be lying dead In a single grave in Yarrow
The lassie ...her plooboy lad Of all the ... of Thurrow - Go and get for me your father's sword And I'll fight with you in Yarrow
He has climbed yon high high hill And doon the tracks so narrow And it's there he's faced those nine noble men On the bonny green banks of Yarrow
Well, it's three he slew and three they flew Three he's wounded sorely Till her brother John came runnin' in And cut him down most foully
Go home, go home, you false young man Go and tell your sister Sarah How bravely you slew her ploolad true On the bonny green banks of Yarrow
And she has climbed yon high high hill And doon the tracks so narrow And it's there she's found her plooboy lad Lying pale and dead in Yarrow
Her hair it was three quarters long The colour of it was yellow She's locked it roond his middle so small And she's carried him home from Yarrow
But this lassie she was still but a child And her heart couldn't stand such sorrow And they buried her with her ploolad true In a single grave in Yarrow