Identifier: gri_33125012902363 (find matches)
Title: The book of British ballads
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889
Subjects: Ballads, English
Publisher: London : J. How
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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r Fair Annie, I 11 straik it wi a wand. And when she came to Marys Kirk,And sate down in the deas, The light, that came fra Fair Annie,Enlightened a the place. But up and stands the nut-browne-bride, Just at her fathers knee; O wha is this my father dear, That blinks in Willies ee ? O this is Willies first true love, Before he loved thee. O whare got ye that water, Annie,That washes you sae white?— I got it in my mithers wambeWhere ye 11 neer get the like. For yeve been washd in Dunnys well,And dried on Dunnys dyke; And a the water in the seaWill never wash ye white. Willies taen a rose o his hat,Laid it on Annies lap,— The bonniest to the bonniest fasHae, wear it for my sake. Take up and wear your rose, Willie, As long as it will last;For, like your love, its sweetness a Will soon be gone and past. The catastrophe does not resemble that which occurs in the ballad of LordThomas and Fair Annet, but more nearly that which is recorded in the ballad of Fair Margaret and Sweet William.
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