Child's, The English And Scottish Ballads

Volume 2 of 8 from 1860 edition

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	THE CRUEL MOTHER.
	From Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 46. Three stanzas of a Warwickshire version closely-resembling Kinlochs are given in Notes and Queries, vol. viii. p. 358. v There lives a lady in London— AM alone, and alonie ; She's gane wi' bairn to the clerk's son— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie. She has tane her mantel her about—               6 All alone, and alonie ; She's gane aff to the gude greenwud— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie. She has set her back until an aik— All alone, and alonie ;                                      w First it bowed, and syne it brake— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie. She has set her back until a brier— AH alone, and alonie ;