The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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For my uncle will buy me a cradle,
To rock my child in when it's young.
And I wonder, &c.*
LOVE WILL FIND OUT THE WAY.
Tune—Love xvlUJind out the xvay.
Over the mountains,
And over the waves,
Under the fountains,
And under the graves,
Under floods that are deepest.
Which Neptune obey.
Over rocks which are steepest,
Love will find out the way.
Where there is no place
For the glow-worm to lie.
Where there is no space
For receipt of a fly ;
Where the midge dares not venture,
Lest herself fast she lay ;
If love come, he will enter,
And soon find his way.
* From Scottish Songs, (2 vols. 1793,) collected by Ritson, who state?
that he copied it from an ordinary collection of which he did not preserve
the name. He also states that he altered the word " it" in the last line of
the first stanza, from "they," which was the original reading; adopting
the former from an old English black-print ballad exactly resembling this,
and of which the first verse ran as follows
O when shall I be married,
Hogh, be married ?
My beauty begins to decay:
'Tis time to find out somebody,
Hogh, somebody, .
Before it is quite gone away.
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