Part 2 / Book 7 — INDEX OF FIRST LINES

The numbers are ballad numbers, not page numbers.

A fair maid sat in her bower door 72

A ship I have got in the North Country 132

A wonder stranger ne’er was known 175

About Yule when the wind blew cule 82

Adieu, madame, my mother dear 151

A’ the boys of merry Lincoln 79

All the trees they are so high 156

All under the leaves and the leaves of life 111

An ancient story I’ll tell you anon 173

An earthly nourrice sits and sings 31

Annan water’s wading deep 92

As I pass’d by a river side 102

As I sat under a sycamore tree 104

As I was a-walking mine alane 140

As I was cast in my first sleepe 59

As I was walking all alane 67

As I was walking mine alane 11

As it befel in midsummer-time 130

As it fell on a holy-day 133

As it fell on one holy-day 50

As it fell out on a long summer’s day 62

As it fell out one May morning 110

As it fell out upon a day 109

Be it right or wrong these men among 69

But how many months be in the year? 118

By Arthur’s Dale as late I went 74

Can I not sing but ‘Hoy’ 103

Childe Maurice hunted the Silver Wood 47

Childe Waters in his stable stood 46

Clerk Colven and his gay ladie 29

Clerk Saunders and may Margaret 27

Come, all you brave gallants, and listen a while 119

Come, gentlemen all, and listen a while 120

Come listen to me, yon gallants so free 121

Cospatrick has sent o’er the faem 5

Der lived a king inta da aste 15

Erlinton had a fair daughter 37

Ettrick Forest is a fair forest 84

Fair Margret was a proud ladye 26

False Sir John a-wooing came 10

Foul fa’ the breast first treason bred in! 139

Four-and-twenty nobles rade to the King’s ha’ 85

Glasgerion was a King’s own son 40

God! let never soe old a man 53

God send the land deliverance 146

Gude Lord Scroope’s to the hunting gane 143

Hearken to me, gentlemen 41

Her mother died when she was young 13

Hie upon Hielands 96

Hit wes upon a Scere-thorsday 97

Hynd Horn’s bound, love, and Hynd Horn’s free 35

‘I am as brown as brown can be 157

I have heard talk of bold Robin Hood 123

‘I heard a cow low, a bonnie cow low 7

I herde a carpyng of a clerk 112

I was a lady of high renown 87

‘I was but seven year auld 14

I wish I were where Helen lies 152

In Cawsand Bay lying, with the Blue Peter flying 168

In London was Young Beichan born 45

In Scarlet town, where I was born 158

In seventeen hundred and ninety-four 169

In somer, when the shawes be sheyne 117

In summer time, when leaves grow green 118

In summer time, when leaves grow green 124

In the third day of May 17

Inverey cam’ doun Deeside, whistlin’ and playin’ 149

It fell about the Lammas tide 127

It fell about the Martinmas 77

It fell about the Martinmas time 172

It fell about the Martinmas tyde 141

It fell on a day, and a bonnie simmer day 135

It fell upon a Wadensday 21

It’s Lamkin was a mason good 78

It’s narrow, narrow, mak your bed 42

It was a blind beggar, had long lost his sight 163

It was a knight in Scotland born 71

It was intill a pleasant time 25

It was the worthy Lord of Lorn 76

Jesus, Lord mickle of might 3

Johnnie rose up in a May morning 136

Joseph was an old man 101

King Easter has courted her for her lands 70

Kinge Arthur lives in merry Carlisle 19

Lady Alice was sitting in her bower-window 154

Late at e’en, drinkin’ the wine 150

Let never a man a wooing wend 16

Lithe and listen, Gentlemen 115

Lord Bateman was a noble lord 164

Lord Ingram and Childe Vyet 51

Lord Lovel he stood at his castle-gate 155

Lord Thomas and Fair Annet 54

Lordings, listen, and hold you still 126

Lully, lulley! lully, lulley! 100

Marie Hamilton’s to the kirk gane 83

Mark this song, for it is true 108

May Margaret sits in her bower door 36

Mery it was in the grene foreste 114

‘My love has built a bonny ship, and set her on the sea 160

My love he built me a bonny bower 153

My plaid awa’, my plaid awa’ 8

Now is Christëmas y-come 107

Now Liddesdale has lain lang in 142

Now Liddesdale has ridden a raid 138

Now list and lithe, you gentlemen 129

Now ponder well, you parents dear 174

O Alison Gross, that lives in yon tow’r 12

O Bessie Bell and Mary Gray 176

O bonny Baby Livingston 147

‘O brent’s your brow, my Lady Elspat 86

O did ye ever hear o’ brave Earl Brand? 38

O have ye na heard o’ the fause Sakelde? 137

O heard ye na o’ the silly blind Harper 144

‘O I forbid you, maidens a’ 2

O Jellon Grame sit in Silverwood 49

‘O lady, rock never your young son young 30

O Rose the Red and White Lilly 55

O the Ploughboy was a ploughing 167

‘O well’s me o’ my gay goss-hawk 60

‘O wha will shoe my bonny foot? 43

O wha would wish the wind to blau 48

‘O where hae ye been, Lord Randal, my son? 66

‘O where hae ye been, my long, long love 28

O Willie’s large o’ limb and lith 113

O wow for day! 50

Of a’ the maids o’ fair Scotland 91

Our King he kept a false steward 4

Prince Robert has wedded a gay ladye 58

‘Rise up, rise up, now Lord Douglas,’ she says 39

Saies, ‘Come here, cuzen Gawaine so gay 18

Saint Stephen was a clerk 98

She lean’d her back unto a thorn 22

Sum speiks of lords, sum speiks of lairds 89

Sweet Willy’s taen him o’er the faem 6

The Angel Gabriel from God 106

The bonny heir, and the well faur’d heir 80

The Duke of Gordon had three daughters 94

The eighteenth of October 145

The first good joy our Mary had 105

The gardener stands in his bower door 159

The George-Aloe, and the Sweepstake, too 131

The king sits in Dunfermline town 75

The maid she went to the well to washe 99

The Percy out of Northumberland 128

The shepard upon a hill he sat 103

‘The wind doth blow to-day, my love 34

The young lords o’ the north country 73

There are twelve months in all the year 122

There cam’ seven Egyptians on a day 148

‘There is a feast in your father’s house 56

There lived a wife at Usher’s well 32

There was a knight and a lady bright 24

There was a may, and a weel-far’d may 88

There was a rich lord, and he lived in Forfar 20

There was a youth, and a well-belovèd youth 162

There were three ladies play’d at the ba’ 64

There were three ravens sat on a tree 68

There were three sisters fair and bright 9

There were twa brethren in the North 63

There were twa sisters sat in a bour 23

There where three ladies live in a bower 57

This ae nighte, this ae nighte 33

This winter’s weather it waxeth cold 170

‘Tom Pearse, Tom Pearse, lend me your grey mare 171

True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank 1

‘Turn, Willie Macintosh 134

When captains couragious whom death could not daunte 165

When Robin Hood and Little John 125

When shaws beene sheene, and shradds full fayre 116

When we were silly sisters seven 81

‘Why does your brand sae drop wi’ blude 65

Will you hear a Spanish lady 161

Willie stands in his stable door 90

‘Willie, Willie, what makes you sae sad?’ 61

‘Willy’s rare, and Willy’s fair 93

Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands 95

‘Ye maun gang to your father, Janet 52

You beauteous ladies great and small 166

Young Bekie was as brave a knight 44