| The Music Of Scotland |
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| The Four Marys |
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Last night there were four Marys Tonight there'll be but three There was Mary Seaton and Mary Beaton And Mary Carmichael and me. Oh, often have I dressed my Queen And put on her braw silk gown But all the thanks I've got tonight Is to be hanged in Edinborough Town. Full often have I dressed my Queen Put gold upon her hair But I have got for my reward The gallows to be my share. Oh, little did my mother know The day she cradled me The land I was to travel in The death I was to dee. Oh, happy, happy is the maid That's born of beauty free Oh, it was my rosy, dimpled cheeks That's been the devil to me. They'll tie a kerchief around my eyes That I may not see to dee And they'll never tell my father or mother But that I'm across the sea. |
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