...to my mother's bower, and tell to fetch Johnie away? The starling flew to his mother's window-stane, it whistled and it sang, And aye the ower word o' the tune was — Johnie tarries lang." In the ballad of " Earl Richard " from the same volume a young lady through jealousy murders the young...

...bird Can sing as I can say, Could flee away to my mother's bower, And tell to fetch Johnie away ? " The starling flew to his mother's window stane, It...slae-thorn tree, And mony mony were the men At fetching o'er Johnie. Then out and spake his auld mother, And fast her tears did fa' — " Ye wad nae be warn'd,...

...Can sing as I can say ; Could flee away to my mother's bower, And tell to fetch Johnie away 1" — 1 The starling flew to his mother's window stane, It...ower word o' the tune Was — "Johnie tarries lang !" 1 [Perhaps here should be inserted the beautiful stanza preserved by Finlay, so descriptive, as...

...bonny bird, Can sing as I can say ? — Could flee to my mother's bower And tell to fetch Johnie away?" The starling flew to his mother's window stane. It...ower word o' the tune Was — " Johnie tarries lang ! " Bothwick of North Berwick Law, Wons in his Seaward Tower, — Which looketh on to the German Sea,...

...to my mother's bower And tell to fetch Johnie away?" The starling flew to his mother's window stone. It whistled and it sang ; And aye the ower word o" the tune Was — "Johnie tarries lang ! " Bothwick of North Berwick Law, Wons in his Seaward Tower, — Which looketh on to the German Sea,...

...fetch me away ? " The starling flew to the window-stane ; It whistled and it sang ; And aye the owre word o' the tune Was — " Johnie tarries lang ! " They made a rod o' the hazel bush, And ane o' the hae-thorn tree ; And mony, mony were the men At the fetching of our Johnie. Then out...

...bower, Jobnie of JBrea&islee The starling flew to his mother's window It whistled and it sang ; [stane, And aye the ower word o' the tune Was — " Johnie...slae-thorn tree, And mony, mony were the men At fetching o'er Johnie. Then out and spak his auld mother, And fast her tears did fa' — ' Ye wad nae be warned,...

...its wing in the wan water, And straik it on my e'e-bree ? " Responding to his cry for a messenger, The starling flew to his mother's window stane, It whistled and it sang, And aye the ower-word o' its tune Was " Johnnie tarries lang ! " They made a rod o' the hazel bush, Anither o'...

...owerword of the tune Was — " John tarries lang! " 24 They made a rod of the hazel bush, Another of the slae-thorn tree; And mony, mony were the men At fetching our Johnnie. 25 Then out and spake his auld mither, And fast her tears did fa' : "Ye wou'dna be warned,...

...bird Can sing as I can say, Could flee away to my mother's bower, And tell to fetch Johnnie away ? " The starling flew to his mother's window stane, It...and it sang ; And aye the ower word o' the tune Was — " Johnnie tarries lang ! " They made a rod o' the hazel bush, Another o' the sloe-thorn tree, And...