I have always repeated the first verse at the end of "Little Musgrave" as I feel that it rounds the ballad off nicely following the high drama climax. That's just my opinion and in the last forty years nobody has challenged me over it. In similar fashion I always repeat the first line at the end of the ballad "Alan McLean" again feeling that it brings to a close a particularly sad tale. But calling "The Fair Flower of Norhumberland" a ditty.......