{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch218.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch218.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch218.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends & Sagas\u00a0\n England\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n \n 218A: The False Lover Won Back\n \n \n 218A.1 A FAIR maid sat in her bower-door,\n Wringing her lily hands,\n And by it came a sprightly youth,\n Fast tripping oer the strands.\n 218A.2 \u2018Where gang ye, young John,\u2019 she says,\n \u2018Sae early in the day?\n It gars me think, by your fast trip,\n Your journey\u2019s far away.\u2019\n 218A.3 He turnd about wi surly look,\n And said, What\u2019s that to thee?\n I\u2019m gaen to see a lovely maid,\n Mair fairer far than ye.\n 218A.4 \u2018Now hae ye playd me this, fause love,\n In simmer, mid the flowers?\n I shall repay ye back again,\n In winter, mid the showers.\n 218A.5 \u2018But again, dear love, and again, dear love,\n Will ye not turn again?\n For as ye look to other women,\n I shall to other men.\u2019\n 218A.6 \u2018Make your choice of whom you please,\n For I my choice will have;\n I\u2019ve chosen a maid more fair than thee,\n I never will deceive.\u2019\n 218A.7 But she\u2019s kilt up her claithing fine,\n And after him gaed she;\n But aye he said, Ye\u2019ll turn again,\n Nae farder gae wi me.\n 218A.8 \u2018But again, dear love, and again, dear love,\n Will ye never love me again?\n Alas for loving you sae well,\n And you nae me again!\u2019\n 218A.9 The first an town that they came till,\n He bought her brooch and ring;\n And aye he bade her turn again,\n And gang nae farder wi him.\n 218A.10 \u2018But again, dear love, and again, dear love,\n Will ye never love me again?\n Alas for loving you sae well,\n And you nae me again!\u2019\n 218A.11 The next an town that they came till,\n He bought her muff and gloves;\n But aye he bade her turn again,\n And choose some other loves.\n 218A.12 \u2018But again, dear love, and again, dear love,\n Will ye never love me again?\n Alas for loving you sae well,\n And you nae me again!\u2019\n 218A.13 The next an town that they came till,\n His heart it grew mair fain,\n And he was as deep in love wi her\n As she was ower again.\n 218A.14 The next an town that they came till,\n He bought her wedding gown,\n And made her lady of ha\u2019s and bowers,\n Into sweet Berwick town.\n \n \n \n 218B: The False Lover Won Back\n \n \n 218B.1 THE sun shines high on yonder hill,\n And low on yonder town;\n In the place where my love Johnny dwells,\n The sun gaes never down.\n 218B.2 \u2018O when will ye be back, bonny lad,\n O when will ye be hame?\n \u2018When heather-hills are nine times brunt,\n And a\u2019 grown green again.\u2019\n 218B.3 \u2018O that\u2019s ower lang awa, bonny lad,\n O that\u2019s ower lang frae hame;\n For I\u2019ll be dead and in my grave\n Ere ye come back again.\u2019\n 218B.4 He put his foot into the stirrup\n And said he maun go ride,\n But she kilted up her green claithing\n And said she woudna bide.\n 218B.5 The firsten town that they came to,\n He bought her hose and sheen,\n And bade her rue and return again,\n And gang nae farther wi him.\n 218B.6 \u2018Ye likena me at a\u2019, bonny lad,\n Ye likena me at a\u2019;\u2019\n \u2018It\u2019s sair for you likes me sae weel\n And me nae you at a\u2019.\u2019\n 218B.7 The nexten town that they came to,\n He bought her a braw new gown,\n And bade her rue and return again,\n And gang nae farther wi him.\n 218B.8 The nexten town that they came to,\n He bought her a wedding ring,\n And bade her dry her rosy cheeks,\n And he would tak her wi him.\n 218B.9 \u2018O wae be to your bonny face,\n And your twa blinkin een!\n And wae be to your rosy cheeks!\n They\u2019ve stown this heart o mine.\n 218B.10 \u2018There\u2019s comfort for the comfortless,\n There\u2019s honey for the bee;\n There\u2019s comfort for the comfortless,\n There\u2019s nane but you for me.\u2019\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Next: 219. The Gardener","title":"The Child Ballads: 218. The False Lover Won Back","type":"page"}