FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND



The provost's aye daughter was making her lane

Oh but her love was easy won

And she heard a Scots prisoner a making his mane

And she's the fair flower of Northumberland



"It's oh, gin the lassie would borrow a key"

Oh but her love was easy won

"And I'd make her a lady of high degree

If she'd loose me out of this prison stang"



Oh she's gane then tae her faither's bed stock

Oh but her love was easy won

And she's stolen the keys for many a braw lock

And she's loosed him out of his prison strang



Oh she's gane ben tae her faither's stable

Oh but her love was easy won

And she's ta'en a horse that's both fleet and able

To carry them ben tae bonnie Scotland



As they were a riding across the Scot's moor

He said, "Oh but her love was easy won

Get doon frae my horse, you're a brazen faced whore

Although you're the flower of northumberland"



"It's I hae a wife in my ain country

Oh but her love was easy won

And I cannae do nothing wi a lassie like thee

So go get ye back tae Northumberland"



"It's cook in your kitchen I surely will be"

Oh but her love was easy won

"And I'll serve your lady most reverently

For I dare nae go back tae Northumberland"



"It's cook in my kitchen ye cannae well be

Oh but her love was easy won

For my lady, she winnae hae servants like thee

So get ye back tae Northumberland"



But laith was he the lassie tae tyne

He said, " Oh but her love was easy won"

So he's hired an old horse and he's feed an old man

To carry her hame tae Northumberland



But when she gaed in, her Faither did froon

And said, " Oh but her love was easy won

To be a Scot's whore and you're fifteen years old

And you're the fair flower of Northumberland"



But when she gaed in, her mither did smile

And said, " Oh but her love was easy won

You're nae the first that the Scots hae beguiled

And you're still the fair flower of Northumberland"



"For ye winnae want bread and ye winnae want wine

Oh but her love was easy won

And ye winnae want silver to buy a man

And you're still the fair flower of Northumberland"



@Scots @outlaw @courtship @ballad

Child #9

recorded by Sara Grey

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