A few verse from various Child ballads

I dreamed a dream last night, he said.
Such dreams are never good.
I dreamed by bower was full of swine,
And my bride bed full of blood.

Is Lady Margaret in her bower?
Or is she in her hall?
Or is she in her cold, cold coffin,
with her face turned to the wall.

Aft hae I played at the cairds and dice,
With my ain dear rantin' laddie.
But now I maun sit in my father's hall,
And sing bah to my bastard baby.

Willie stands at his hall door
and strokes his milk white steed.
When the rings they burst from off his fingers,
And his nose began to bleed.

Then up and spake the weather man.
I fear we'll all be be drowned.
For last night I saw the new moon
with the old moon in her arm.

Wha will lace mah shoes sae sma'
And wha will glove mah hand.
And wha will bind mah middle,
With a new made linen band.

Dinna ye mind, Lord Gregory,
When we were at the wine,
We changed the rings on our fingers,
And I can show thee thine.

Up then crew the red, red cock,
And up then crew the grey.
The eldest to the youngest said,
"It's time we were away"

The day does dawn, the cock does crow,
The chunnering worm does chide.
If we be missed out of our place,
A sore pain we must bide.

Woe be, woe be, my love he cries,
Woe be to your family.
Oh Don't you see my own heart's blood
Come trickling down my knee.

There was a lord in Edinburgh,
And a false, false lord was he.
he came a courting a rich king's daughter.
And married thought she.

For love comes in at my bedside,
And love lies down beside me.
Love so oppressed my tender breast.
And love will waste my body.

The stalk is withered dry my love.
So shall our hearts decay.
So be content to prove my love.
Till God calls you away.

Marvellous stuff!