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From Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 46.

Three stanzas of a Warwickshire version closely resembling Kinloch's are given in Notes and Queries, vol. viii. p. 358.

There lives a lady in London—

All alone, and alonie; She's gane wi' bairn to the clerk's son— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

She has tane her mantel her about—5

All alone, and alonie; She's gane aff to the gude greenwud— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

She has set her back until an aik—

All alone, and alonie;10 First it bowed, and syne it brake— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

She has set her back until a brier—

All alone, and alonie; Bonnie were the twa boys she did bear—15 Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

But out she's tane a little penknife—

All alone, and alonie; And she's parted them and their sweet life— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.20

She's aff unto her father's ha'—

All alone, and alonie; She seem'd the lealest maiden amang them a'— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

As she lookit our the castle wa'—25

All alone, and alonie; She spied twa bonnie boys playing at the ba'— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

"O an thae twa babes were mine"—

All alone, and alonie;30 "They should wear the silk and the sabelline"— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

"O mother dear, when we were thine,"

All alone, and alonie; "We neither wore the silks nor the sabelline"—35 Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.

"But out ye took a little penknife"—

All alone, and alonie; "An ye parted us and our sweet life"— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.40

"But now we're in the heavens hie"—

All alone, and alonie; "And ye have the pains o' hell to dree"— Doun by the greenwud sae bonnie.