{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch227.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch227.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch227.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 227A: Bonny Lizie Baillie\n \n \n 227A.1 It fell about the Lambmass tide,\n When the leaves were fresh and green,\n Lizie Bailie is to Gartartain [gane],\n To see her sister Jean.\n 227A.2 She had not been in Gartartain\n Even but a little while\n Till luck and fortune happend her,\n And she went to the Isle.\n 227A.3 And when she went into the Isle\n She met with Duncan Grahame;\n So bravely as he courted her!\n And he convoyd her hame.\n 227A.4 \u2018My bonny Lizie Bailie,\n I\u2019ll row thee in my pladie,\n If thou will go along with me\n And be my Highland lady.\u2019\n 227A.5 \u2018If I would go along with thee,\n I think I were not wise;\n For I cannot milk cow nor ewe,\n Nor yet can I speak Erse.\u2019\n 227A.6 \u2018Hold thy tongue, bonny Lizie Bailie,\n And hold thy tongue,\u2019 said he;\n \u2018For any thing that thou does lack,\n My dear, I\u2019ll learn thee.\u2019\n 227A.7 She would not have a Lowland laird,\n He wears the high-heeld shoes;\n She will marry Duncan Grahame,\n For Duncan wears his trews.\n 227A.8 She would not have a gentleman,\n A farmer in Kilsyth,\n But she would have the Highland man,\n He lives into Monteith.\n 227A.9 She would not have the Lowland man,\n Nor yet the English laddie,\n But she would have the Highland man,\n To row her in his pladie.\n 227A.10 He took her by the milk-white hand,\n And he convoyed her hame,\n And still she thought, both night and day,\n On bonny Duncan Grahame.\n 227A.11 \u2018O bonny Duncan Grahame,\n Why should ye me miscarry?\n For, if you have a love for me,\n We\u2019ll meet a[t] Castle Carry.\n 227A.12 \u2018As I came in by Dennie bridge,\n And by the holland-bush,\n My mother took from me my cloaths,\n My rings, ay and my purse.\n 227A.13 \u2018Hold your tongue, my mother dear,\n For that I do not care;\n For I will go with Duncan Grahame\n Tho I should ner get mair.\n 227A.14 \u2018For first when I met Duncan Grahame\n I met with meikle joy,\n And many pretty Highland men\n Was there at my convoy.\u2019\n 227A.15 And now he is gone through the muir,\n And she is through the glen:\n \u2018O bonny Lizie Bailie,\n When will we meet again!\u2019\n 227A.17 Shame light on these logerheads\n That lives in Castle Carry,\n That let away the bonny lass\n The Highland man to marry!\n 227A.16 \u2018O bonny Lizie, stay at home!\n Thy mother cannot want thee;\n For any thing that thou does lack,\n My dear, I\u2019ll cause get thee.\u2019\n 227A.18 \u2018I would not give my Duncan Grahame\n For all my father\u2019s land,\n Although he had three lairdships more,\n And all at my command.\u2019\n 227A.19 And she\u2019s cast off her silken gowns,\n That she weard in the Lowland,\n And she\u2019s up to the Highland hills,\n To wear [the] gowns of tartain.\n 227A.20 And she\u2019s cast off her high-heeld shoes,\n Was made of the gilded leather,\n And she\u2019s up to Gillecrankie,\n To go among the heather.\n 227A.21 And she\u2019s cast off her high-heeld shoes,\n And put on a pair of laigh ones,\n And she\u2019s away with Duncan Grahame,\n To go among the brachans.\n 227A.22 \u2018O my bonny Lizie Bailie,\n Thy mother cannot want thee;\n And if thou go with Duncan Grahame\n Thou\u2019ll be a Gilliecrankie.\u2019\n 227A.23 \u2018Hold your tongue, my mother dear,\n And folly let thee be;\n Should I not fancie Duncan Grahame\n When Duncan fancies me?\n 227A.24 \u2018Hold your tongue, my father dear,\n And folly let thee be;\n For I will go with Duncan Grahame\n Fore all the men I see.\u2019\n 227A.25 \u2018Who is it that\u2019s done this turn?\n Who has done this deed?\u2019\n \u2018A minister it\u2019s, father,\u2019 she says,\n \u2018Lives at the Rughburn bridge.\u2019\n 227A.26 \u2018A minister, daughter?\u2019 he says,\n \u2018A minister for mister!\u2019\n \u2018O hold your tongue, my father dear,\n He married first my sister.\u2019\n 227A.27 \u2018O fare you well, my daughter dear,\n So dearly as I lovd thee!\n Since thou wilt go to Duncan Grahame,\n My bonny Lizie Bailie.\u2019\n 227A.28 \u2018O fare you well, my father dear,\n Also my sister Betty;\n O fare you well, my mother dear,\n I leave you all compleatly.\u2019\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Next: 228. Glasgow Peggie","title":"The Child Ballads: 227. Bonny Lizie Baillie","type":"page"}