Ye's Lie Neist the Wa'

DESCRIPTION: "The day o' Duncan's marriage it was a day o' rain, I took 'er on ahin me, and vow but I was fain, I took the leem [loom] rod in my han' a scabbit beast to ca, And we's baith lie in ae bed, and ye's lie neist the wa'"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Greig/Duncan4)
KEYWORDS: wedding sex abduction
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Greig/Duncan4 913, "Ye's Lie Neist the Wa'" (1 fragment)
Roud #6243
NOTES [23 words]: The current description is all of the Greig/Duncan4 fragment. - BS
A first person variant of "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" [Child 46]? - RBW
Last updated in version 2.5
File: GrD4913

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