Child's, The English And Scottish Ballads

Volume 2 of 8 from 1860 edition

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236                     THE CBUEL SISTER.
And when he looked that lady on,
Binnorie, 0 Binnorie ; He sigh'd and made a heavy moan ;
By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.
He made a harp of her breast-bone,                     a
Binnorie, 0 Binnorie ; Whose sounds would melt a heart of stone ;
By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.
The strings he framed of her yellow hair,
Binnorie, 0 Binnorie ; 90 Whose notes made sad the listening ear;
By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.
He brought it to her father's hall,
Binnorie, 0 Binnorie ; And there was the court assembled all;               ss
By the bonny milldams of Binnorie.
He laid his harp upon a stone,
Binnorie, 0 Binnorie ; And straight it began to play alone ;
By the bonny milldams of Binnorie. ioc
" 0 yonder sits my father, the king,
Binnorie, 0 Binnorie ; And yonder sits my mother, the queen;"
By the bonny milldams of Binnorie