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It feel about the Lammas tide	A
When the muir men win their hay	B
The doughty Douglas bound him to ride	A
Into England to drive a prey	B
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He chose the Gordons and the Graemes	C
With them the Lindesays light and gay	B
But the Jardines wald not with him ride	A
And they rue it to this day	B
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And he has burned the dales of Tyne	D
And part of Bambrough shire	E
And three good towers on Reidswire fells	C
He left them all on fire	F
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And he marched up to Newcastle	G
And rode it round about	H
'O wha's the lord of this castle	G
Or wha's the lady o't '	-
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But up spake proud Lord Percy then	I
And O but he spake hie	B
I am the lord of this castle	G
My wife's the lady gay	B
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'If thou'rt the lord of this castle	G
Sae weel it pleases me	J
For ere I cross the Border fells	C
The tane of us shall die '	-
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He took a lang spear in his hand	K
Shod with the metal free	J
And for to meet the Douglas there	L
He rode right furiouslie	G
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But O how pale his lady looked	M
Frae aff the castle wa	N
When down before the Scottish spear	O
She saw proud Percy fa	P
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'Had we twa been upon the green	Q
And never an eye to see	J
I wad hae had you flesh and fell	G
But your sword sall gae wi me '	-
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'The Otterbourne's a bonnie burn	R
'Tis pleasant there to be	J
But there is nought at Otterbourne	R
To feed my men and me	J
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'The deer rins wild on hill and dale	G
The birds fly wild frae tree to tree	J
But there is neither bread nor kale	G
To fend my men and me	J
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'Yet I will stay at Otterbourne	R
Where you shall welcome be	J
And if ye come not at three dayis end	S
A fause lord I'll ca thee	J
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'Thither will I come ' proud Percy said	T
'By the might of Our Ladye'	U
'There will I bide thee' said the Douglas	C
'My troth I plight to thee '	-
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They lighted high on Otterbourne	R
Upon the bent sae brown	R
They lighted high on Otterbourne	R
And threw their pallions down	R
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And he that had a bonnie boy	V
Sent out his horse to grass	C
And he that had not a bonnie boy	V
His ain servant he was	C
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But up then spake a little page	W
Before the peep of dawn	R
'O waken ye waken ye my good lord	X
For Percy's hard at hand '	-
	-
'Ye lie ye lie ye liar loud	Y
Sae loud I hear ye lie	G
For Percy had not men yestreen	R
To dight my men and me	J
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'But I have dreamed a dreary dream	Z
Beyond the Isle of Skye	U
I saw a dead man win a fight	A2
And I think that man was I '	-
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He belted on his guid braid sword	X
And to the field he ran	R
But he forgot the helmet good	B2
That should have kept his brain	R
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When Percy with the Douglas met	C2
I wat he was fu fain	R
They swakked their swords till sair they swat	D2
And the blood ran down like rain	R
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But Percy with his good broad sword	X
That could so sharply wound	E2
has wounded Douglas on the brow	F2
Till he fel to the ground	E2
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Then he call'd on his little foot page	W
And said Run speedilie	G
And fetch my ain dear sister's son	R
Sir Hugh Montgomery	J
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'My nephew's good ' the Douglas said	T
'What recks the death of ane	R
Last night I dreamed a dreary dream	Z
And I ken the day's thy ain	R
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'My wound is deep I fain would sleep	G2
Take thou the vanguard of the three	J
And hide me by the braken bush	H2
That grows on yonder lilye lee	J
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'O bury me by the braken bush	H2
Beneath the blooming brier	F
Let never a living mortal ken	R
That ere a kindly Scot lies here '	-
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He lifted up that noble lord	X
Wi the saut tear in his ee	J
He hid him in the braken bush	H2
That his merrie men might not see	J
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The moon was clear the day drew near	O
The spears in flinders flew	G
But mony a gallant Englishman	R
Ere day the Scotsmen slew	G
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The Gordons good in English blood	I2
They steepd their hose and shoon	R
The Lindsays flew like fire about	H
Till all the fray was done	R
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The Percy and Montgomery met	C2
That either of other were fain	R
They swapped swords and they twa swat	D2
And aye the blood ran down between	R
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'Now yield thee yield thee Percy ' he said	T
'Or else I vow I'll lay thee low '	-
'To whom must I yield ' quoth Earl Percy	J
'Now that I see it must be so '	-
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'Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loun	R
Nor shalt thou yield to me	J
But yeild to the braken bush	H2
That grows upon yon lilye lee '	-
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'I will not yield to a braken bush	H2
Nor yet will I yield to a brier	F
But I would yield to Earl Douglas	C
Or Sir Hugh Montgomery if he were here '	-
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As soon as he knew it was Montgomery	J
He struck his sword's point in the gronde	T
The Montgomery was a courteous knight	T
And quickly took him by the honde	T
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This deed was done at the Otterbourne	R
About the breaking of the day	T
Earl Douglas was buried at the braken bush	H2
And the Percy led captive away	T

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