Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...

158
Six days she lay in murder,
Before that she was found
And it's for mine offence I must die.
all the neighbours round about,
They said it had been I :
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1 put my foot on gude shipboard,
The country to defy;
The ship she wadna sail again,
But hoisted to and fro
And it's for mine offence I must die.
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O up bespak the skipper boy,
I wat he spak too high
" There's sinful men amongst us,
The seas will not obey :"
O up bespak the skipper boy,
I wat he spak too high
And it's for mine offence I must die.
O we cuist cavels* us amang,
The cavel fell on me
* Cuht cavels—cast lots. See note p. 126.
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