![]() Until that against your seven brethren bold,Ħ She held his steed in her mllk-white hand, With a bugelet horn hung down by his side,Ĥ Lord William lookit oer his left shoulder,Īnd there he spy'd her seven brethren bold,ĥ 'Light down, light clown, Lady Margret,' he said, Let it never be said that a daughter of thineĪnd take better care of your youngest sister,ģ He 's mounted her on a milk-white steed, 1833 the copy principally used supplied by Mr Sharpe, the three last stanzas from a penny pamphlet and from tradition.ġ 'RISE up, rise up, now, Lord Douglas,' she says, 'She's out with her maids to play at the ba.'Ģ0 The father armed fifteen of his best menĢ1 Oer her left shoulder the lady looked thenĢ6 But for a' sae wounded as Earl Bran was,Ģ7 They rode till they came to the water o Doune,Ģ8 'O Earl Bran, I see your heart's blood!'Ģ9 They rode till they came to his mother's gate,ģ0 'O my son 's slain, my son 's put down,Ī. fragmentary lines as remembered by Mrs Andrews, Mr White's sister, from her mother's singing.ġ1 'O where hae ye ridden this lee lang day? from the papers of the late Robert White, Esq., of Newcastle-on-Tyne: c. 'The Brave Earl Brand and and the King of England's Daughter'Ī. Try this to traditional versions from the archives. Bronson has 39 texts with tunes in his Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. He courted the king's daughter of fair England.Īll i the night sae early Child has 9 versions (A-I) of Earl Brand of which 2 have tunes and with a further 2 versions in the Appendix.
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