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  • A fair maid sat in her bower door 72
  • A ship I have got in the North Country 132
  • A wonder stranger ne’er was known 175
  • About Yule when the wind blew cule 82
  • Adieu, madame, my mother dear 151
  • A’ the boys of merry Lincoln 79
  • All the trees they are so high 156
  • All under the leaves and the leaves of life 111
  • An ancient story I’ll tell you anon 173
  • An earthly nourrice sits and sings 31
  • Annan water’s wading deep 92
  • As I pass’d by a river side 102
  • As I sat under a sycamore tree 104
  • As I was a-walking mine alane 140
  • As I was cast in my first sleepe 59
  • As I was walking all alane 67
  • As I was walking mine alane 11
  • As it befel in midsummer-time 130
  • As it fell on a holy-day 133
  • As it fell on one holy-day 50
  • As it fell out on a long summer’s day 62
  • As it fell out one May morning 110
  • As it fell out upon a day 109
  • Be it right or wrong these men among 69
  • But how many months be in the year? 118
  • By Arthur’s Dale as late I went 74
  • Can I not sing but ‘Hoy’ 103
  • Childe Maurice hunted the Silver Wood 47
  • Childe Waters in his stable stood 46
  • Clerk Colven and his gay ladie 29
  • Clerk Saunders and may Margaret 27
  • Come, all you brave gallants, and listen a while 119
  • Come, gentlemen all, and listen a while 120
  • Come listen to me, yon gallants so free 121
  • Cospatrick has sent o’er the faem 5
  • Der lived a king inta da aste 15
  • Erlinton had a fair daughter 37
  • Ettrick Forest is a fair forest 84
  • Fair Margret was a proud ladye 26
  • False Sir John a-wooing came 10
  • Foul fa’ the breast first treason bred in! 139
  • Four-and-twenty nobles rade to the King’s ha’ 85
  • Glasgerion was a King’s own son 40
  • God! let never soe old a man 53
  • God send the land deliverance 146
  • Gude Lord Scroope’s to the hunting gane 143
  • Hearken to me, gentlemen 41
  • Her mother died when she was young 13
  • Hie upon Hielands 96
  • Hit wes upon a Scere-thorsday 97
  • Hynd Horn’s bound, love, and Hynd Horn’s free 35
  • ‘I am as brown as brown can be 157
  • I have heard talk of bold Robin Hood 123
  • ‘I heard a cow low, a bonnie cow low 7
  • I herde a carpyng of a clerk 112
  • I was a lady of high renown 87
  • ‘I was but seven year auld 14
  • I wish I were where Helen lies 152
  • In Cawsand Bay lying, with the Blue Peter flying 168
  • In London was Young Beichan born 45
  • In Scarlet town, where I was born 158
  • In seventeen hundred and ninety-four 169
  • In somer, when the shawes be sheyne 117
  • In summer time, when leaves grow green 118
  • In summer time, when leaves grow green 124
  • In the third day of May 17
  • Inverey cam’ doun Deeside, whistlin’ and playin’ 149
  • It fell about the Lammas tide 127
  • It fell about the Martinmas 77
  • It fell about the Martinmas time 172
  • It fell about the Martinmas tyde 141
  • It fell on a day, and a bonnie simmer day 135
  • It fell upon a Wadensday 21
  • It’s Lamkin was a mason good 78
  • It’s narrow, narrow, mak your bed 42
  • It was a blind beggar, had long lost his sight 163
  • It was a knight in Scotland born 71
  • It was intill a pleasant time 25
  • It was the worthy Lord of Lorn 76
  • Jesus, Lord mickle of might 3
  • Johnnie rose up in a May morning 136
  • Joseph was an old man 101
  • King Easter has courted her for her lands 70
  • Kinge Arthur lives in merry Carlisle 19
  • Lady Alice was sitting in her bower-window 154
  • Late at e’en, drinkin’ the wine 150
  • Let never a man a wooing wend 16
  • Lithe and listen, Gentlemen 115
  • Lord Bateman was a noble lord 164
  • Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet 51
  • Lord Lovel he stood at his castle-gate 155
  • Lord Thomas and Fair Annet 54
  • Lordings, listen, and hold you still 126
  • Lully, lulley! lully, lulley! 100
  • Marie Hamilton’s to the kirk gane 83
  • Mark this song, for it is true 108
  • May Margaret sits in her bower door 36
  • Mery it was in the grene foreste 114
  • ‘My love has built a bonny ship, and set her on the sea 160
  • My love he built me a bonny bower 153
  • My plaid awa’, my plaid awa’ 8
  • Now is ChristËmas y-come 107
  • Now Liddesdale has lain lang in 142
  • Now Liddesdale has ridden a raid 138
  • Now list and lithe, you gentlemen 129
  • Now ponder well, you parents dear 174
  • O Alison Gross, that lives in yon tow’r 12
  • O Bessie Bell and Mary Gray 176
  • O bonny Baby Livingston 147
  • ‘O brent’s your brow, my Lady Elspat 86
  • O did ye ever hear o’ brave Earl Brand? 38
  • O have ye na heard o’ the fause Sakelde? 137
  • O heard ye na o’ the silly blind Harper 144
  • ‘O I forbid you, maidens a’ 2
  • O Jellon Grame sit in Silverwood 49
  • ‘O lady, rock never your young son young 30
  • O Rose the Red and White Lilly 55
  • O the Ploughboy was a ploughing 167
  • ‘O well’s me o’ my gay goss-hawk 60
  • ‘O wha will shoe my bonny foot? 43
  • O wha would wish the wind to blau 48
  • ‘O where hae ye been, Lord Randal, my son? 66
  • ‘O where hae ye been, my long, long love 28
  • O Willie’s large o’ limb and lith 113
  • O wow for day! 50
  • Of a’ the maids o’ fair Scotland 91
  • Our King he kept a false steward 4
  • Prince Robert has wedded a gay ladye 58
  • ‘Rise up, rise up, now Lord Douglas,’ she says 39
  • Saies, ‘Come here, cuzen Gawaine so gay 18
  • Saint Stephen was a clerk 98
  • She lean’d her back unto a thorn 22
  • Sum speiks of lords, sum speiks of lairds 89
  • Sweet Willy’s taen him o’er the faem 6
  • The Angel Gabriel from God 106
  • The bonny heir, and the well faur’d heir 80
  • The Duke of Gordon had three daughters 94
  • The eighteenth of October 145
  • The first good joy our Mary had 105
  • The gardener stands in his bower door 159
  • The George-Aloe, and the Sweepstake, too 131
  • The king sits in Dunfermline town 75
  • The maid she went to the well to washe 99
  • The Percy out of Northumberland 128
  • The shepard upon a hill he sat 103
  • ‘The wind doth blow to-day, my love 34
  • The young lords o’ the north country 73
  • There are twelve months in all the year 122
  • There cam’ seven Egyptians on a day 148
  • ‘There is a feast in your father’s house 56
  • There lived a wife at Usher’s well 32
  • There was a knight and a lady bright 24
  • There was a may, and a weel-far’d may 88
  • There was a rich lord, and he lived in Forfar 20
  • There was a youth, and a well-belovÈd youth 162
  • There were three ladies play’d at the ba’ 64
  • There were three ravens sat on a tree 68
  • There were three sisters fair and bright 9
  • There were twa brethren in the North 63
  • There were twa sisters sat in a bour 23
  • There where three ladies live in a bower 57
  • This ae nighte, this ae nighte 33
  • This winter’s weather it waxeth cold 170
  • ‘Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, lend me your grey mare 171
  • True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank 1
  • ‘Turn, Willie Macintosh 134
  • When captains couragious whom death could not daunte 165
  • When Robin Hood and Little John 125
  • When shaws beene sheene, and shradds full fayre 116
  • When we were silly sisters seven 81
  • ‘Why does your brand sae drop wi’ blude 65
  • Will you hear a Spanish lady 161
  • Willie stands in his stable door 90
  • ‘Willie, Willie, what makes you sae sad?’ 61
  • ‘Willy’s rare, and Willy’s fair 93
  • Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands 95
  • ‘Ye maun gang to your father, Janet 52
  • You beauteous ladies great and small 166
  • Young Bekie was as brave a knight 44
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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