Jock o the Side (Child 187D)

Liddisdaill has ridden a raid,
But they had better ha staid at hame;
For Michael a Wingfield he is slain,
And Jock o the Side they hae taen.

Dinah’s down the water gane,
Wi a’her coats untill her knes,
To Mangerton came she.

How now? how now? What’s your will wi me?

To the New Castle h[e] is gane.

They have cuttin their yad’s tailes,
They’ve cut them a little abune the hough,
And they nevir gave oer s....d running
Till they came to Hathery Haugh.

And when they came to Chollerton ford
Tyne was mair running like a sea.

And when they came to Swinburne wood,
Quickly they ha fellen a tree;
Twenty snags on either side,
And on the top it had lang three.

‘My mare is young, she wul na swim,’

‘Now Mudge the Miller, fie on thee!
Tak thou mine, and I’ll tak thine,
And the deel hang down thy yad and thee.’