May Collean- (Scot) 1827 Motherwell, Child Dc
[One stanza with music from Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introd. and Notes," edited by William Motherwell. Child Dc and first music for the "Western Tragedy" versions. Form his notes in Appendix,
R. Matteson 2018]
Notes
XXIV. MAY COLLEAN. p. 67.
From a different version than that published in this compilation.
O heard ye e'er o' a bloody knight
That liv'd in the west Countrie?
For he has stown seven ladies fair
And drown'd them a' in the sea.