The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 1/Chapter 28

Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
BURD ELLEN sits in her bower windowe, Refrain:	With a double laddy double, and for the double dow Twisting the red silk and the blue. Refrain:	With the double rose and the May-hay And whiles she twisted, and whiles she twan, And whiles the tears fell down amang. Till once there by cam Young Tamlane: ‘Come light, oh light, and rock your young son.’ ‘If you winna rock him, you may let him rair, For I hae rockit my share and mair.’ * * * * *	Young Tamlane to the seas he’s gane, And a’ women’s curse in his company’s gane.