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Border Widow's Lament 
Border Widow's Lament a fragment of FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVINGMEN 
My love he built me a bonnie bower And clad it all with lily flower A brawer bower ye ne'er did see Than my true love he built for me 
There came a man by middle day He spied his sport and went away And brought the King that very night Who broke my bower and slew my knight 
He slew my knight to me sae dear He slew my knight and poin'ed his gear My servants all for life did flee And left me in extremity 
I sewed his sheet, making my moan I watched the corpse, myself alone I watched his body, night and day No living creature came that way 
I took his body on my back And whiles I gaed and whiles I sat I digged a grave and laid him in And happ'd him with the sod sae green 
But think not ye my heart was sair When I laid the mold on his yellow hair Oh think not ye my heart was woe When I turned about, away to go 
No living man I'll love again Since that my lovely knight is slain With a lock of his yellow hair I'll chain my heart for evermore 
fragment of a longer ballad where she dresses as a man, becomes a servant to the king and eventually marries the king. from Smith's Scottish Minstrelsy 1820 sung by Lisa Null on Feathered Maiden 
Tune from The Scottish Folksinger, Buchan and Hall Child #106 SOF