Pp. 247 ff., 506. ‘The Blue Flowers and the Yellow,’ Greenock, printed
by W. Scott [1810].
1
‘This seven long years I’ve courted a maid,’
As the sun shines over the valley
‘And she neer would consent for to be my bride.’
Among the blue flowers and the yellow
2
‘O Jamie, O Jamie, I’ll learn you the way
How your innocent love you’ll betray.
3
‘If you will give to the bell-man a groat,
And he’ll toll you down a merry night-wake.’
4
Now he has given the bell-man a groat,
And he has tolld him down a merry night-wake.
5
‘It’s I must go to my true-love’s wake,
For late last night I heard he was dead.’
6
‘Take with you your horse and boy,
And give your true lover his last convoy.’
7
‘I’ll have neither horse nor boy,
But I’ll go alone, and I’ll mourn and cry.’
8
When that she came to her true-love’s hall,
Then the tears they did down fall.
9
She lifted up the sheets so small,
He took her in his arms and he threw her to the wa.
10
‘It’s let me go a maid, young Jamie,’ she said,
‘And I will be your bride, and to-morrow we’ll be wed.’
11
‘If all your friends were in this bower,
You should not be a maid one quarter of an hour.
12
‘You came here a maid meek and mild,
But you shall go home both marryd and with child.’
13
He gave to her a gay gold ring,
And the next day they had a gay wedding.
The unfortunate Weaver. To which are added The Farmer’s Daughter and The
Blue Flowers and the Yellow. Greenock. Printed by W. Scott. [1810.]
British Museum, 11621. b. 7 (43).
248 a (#C#), III, 503 a. ‘Hr. Mortens Klosterrov,’ Kristensen, Jyske
Folkeminder, X, 264, No 64.
249 b, 506 a, III, 503 a. #Swedish.# ‘Herr Karl,’ Lagus, Nyländska
Folkvisor, I, 51, No 12.