{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch028.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch028.htm","text":"28.1 BURD ELLEN sits in her bower windowe,\nRefrain: With a double laddy double, and for the double dow\nTwisting the red silk and the blue.\nRefrain: With the double rose and the May-hay\n28.2 And whiles she twisted, and whiles she twan,\nAnd whiles the tears fell down amang.\n28.3 Till once there by cam Young Tamlane:\n\u2018Come light, oh light, and rock your young son.\u2019\n28.4 \u2018If you winna rock him, you may let him rair,\nFor I hae rockit my share and mair.\u2019\n* * * * *\n28.5 Young Tamlane to the seas he\u2019s gane,\nAnd a\u2019 women\u2019s curse in his company\u2019s gane.","title":"The Child Ballads: 28. Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane","type":"page"}