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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW.
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My love built me a bonnie bower,
And clad it a' wi' lily flower ;
A brawer bouir ye ne'er did see,
Than my true lover built for me.
There cam a man at mid-day hour,
He heard my song and he saw my bouir —
And he brocht armed men that nicht,
And brake my bouir and slew my knicht.
He slew my knicht, to me sae dear,
And burnt my bouir and drave my gear.
My servants a' for life did flee,
And left me in extremitie.
I sew'd his sheet and made my maen ;
I watch'd his corpse, myself alane ;
I watch'd by nicht and I watch'd by day ;
No living creature came that way.
SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW.
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My love built me a bon - nie bower, And
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clad it a' wi' li - lyflow'r; A braw-er bouir ye
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ne'er did see, Than my true lov - er built for me.
My love built me a bonnie bower,
And clad it a' wi' lily flower ;
A brawer bouir ye ne'er did see,
Than my true lover built for me.
There cam a man at mid-day hour,
He heard my song and he saw my bouir —
And he brocht armed men that nicht,
And brake my bouir and slew my knicht.
He slew my knicht, to me sae dear,
And burnt my bouir and drave my gear.
My servants a' for life did flee,
And left me in extremitie.
I sew'd his sheet and made my maen ;
I watch'd his corpse, myself alane ;
I watch'd by nicht and I watch'd by day ;
No living creature came that way.
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| Special collections of printed music > Inglis Collection of printed music > Printed music > Songs of Scotland prior to Burns > (30) Page 26 - Lament of the border widow |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/94500336 |
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| Description | With the tunes. Edited by Robert Chambers. |
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| Shelfmark | Ing.64 |
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| Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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