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 When we cam in by Glasgow toun, We were a comely sicht to see; My Love was clad in the black velvèt, And I mysel in cramasie.

But had I wist, before I kist, That love had been sae ill to win, I had lock'd my heart in a case o' gowd. And pinn'd it wi' a siller pin. And O! if my young babe were born, And set upon the nurse's knee; And I mysel were dead and gane, And the green grass growing over me!

388. cramasie] crimson. 389. Barbara Allen's Cruelty

In Scarlet town, where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin', Made every youth cry Well-a-way! Her name was Barbara Allen.

All in the merry month of May, When green buds they were swellin', Young Jemmy Grove on his death-bed lay, For love of Barbara Allen.

He sent his man in to her then, To the town where she was dwellin', 'O haste and come to my master dear, If your name be Barbara Allen.'

So slowly, slowly rase she up, And slowly she came nigh him, And when she drew the curtain by— 'Young man, I think you're dyin'.'