Slighted Love- Mary Macqueen (Ayr) 1927 Crawfurd
From: Andrew Crawfurd's Collection of Ballads and Songs by Emily B. Lyle, 1975. Some of her history was provided from memory.
R. Matteson 2017]
Slighted Love- sung by Mary Macqueen (Mrs William Storie) born in Ireland of Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire. She learned some ballads in Galloway when she was young, was in Ayrshire with her brother Thomas about 1825-7, moved to Canada in 1828 and ended up in Utah.
1 Tha're a flower the folk did say
Tha'r a flower they caw caw it heartease
And if that I could but find
It would ease my heart and it would ease my troubled mind.
2 To the meadow she is gane
And pu't the flowers just as they sprang
And every flower she will them pu'
Until she does get her apron fu'.
3 She laid them down and she made her bed
On a soft down pillow she laid her head
She laid her down and nae mair she spake
Crying alas for love my poor heart it break.
4 But when they saw that this maid was cold
They went to her fause love and him they told
If that be's true that you do me tell
I am glad to hear that she is sae well
5 What a foolish young woman must she be
To think I could love nane but she
A man is not bound for ane alone
And I tak great delight for to hear her mane
6 Gae dig her grave baith large and deep
And a merval stane lay at head and feet
And write there on that it may stand
That love has gained the upper hand