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The Text is from Motherwell's Minstrelsy It is based on a stall copy presumably similar to one preserved by Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford combined with a version from recitation which Child none the less calls 'well remembered from print '	A
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The Story has no historical foundation as far as can be discovered and for once we have a traditional tale inculcating a moral though we do not understand why the 'nourice' betrays Sir James to his enemies	B
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Michael Bruce wrote a version of the story of this ballad which seems to have become more popular than the ballad itself It may be seen in A B Grosart's edition of his works p	C
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SIR JAMES THE ROSE	D
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O heard ye of Sir James the Rose	D
The young heir of Buleighan	E
For he has killed a gallant squire	F
And his friends are out to take him	G
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Now he's gone to the house of Marr	H
Where the Nourice was his leman	E
To seek his dear he did repair	I
Thinking she would befriend him	G
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'Where are you going Sir James ' she says	J
'Or where now are you riding '	-
'Oh I am bound to a foreign land	K
For now I'm under hiding	L
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'Where shall I go where shall I run	E
Where shall I go to hide me	C
For I have killed a gallant squire	F
And they're seeking to slay me '	-
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'O go ye down to yon ale house	M
And I'll there pay your lawin'	E
And if I be a maiden true	N
I'll meet you in the dawin' '	-
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'I'll no go down to yon ale house	M
For you to pay my lawin'	E
There's forty shillings for one supper	O
I'll stay in't till the dawin' '	-
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He's turned him richt and round about	P
And rowed him in his brechan	E
And he has gone to take his sleep	Q
In the lowlands of Buleighan	E
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He had not weel gone out o' sicht	P
Nor was he past Millstrethen	E
Till four and twenty belted knights	R
Came riding owre the Lethan	E
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'O have ye seen Sir James the Rose	D
The young heir of Buleighan	E
For he has killed a gallant squire	F
And we're sent out to take him '	-
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'O I have seen Sir James ' she says	J
'For he passed here on Monday	P
If the steed be swift that he rides on	E
He's past the gates o' London '	-
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As they rode on man after man	E
Then she cried out behind them	S
'If you do seek Sir James the Rose	D
I'll tell you where you'll find him '	-
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'Seek ye the bank abune the mill	T
In the lowlands of Buleighan	E
And there you'll find Sir James the Rose	D
Lying sleeping in his brechan	E
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'You must not wake him out of sleep	Q
Nor yet must you affright him	G
Till you drive a dart quite through his heart	P
And through his body pierce him '	-
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They sought the bank abune the mill	T
In the lowlands of Buleighan	E
And there they found Sir James the Rose	D
Lying sleeping in his brechan	E
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Up then spake Sir John the Graeme	U
Who had the charge a keeping	L
'It shall ne'er be said dear gentlemen	E
We killed a man when a sleeping	L
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They seized his broad sword and his targe	V
And closely him surrounded	P
And when he waked out of his sleep	Q
His senses were confounded	P
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'O pardon pardon gentlemen	E
Have mercy now upon me '	-
'Such as you gave such you shall have	W
And so we fall upon thee '	-
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'Donald my man wait me upon	E
And I'll gie you my brechan	E
And if you stay here till I die	P
You'll get my trews of tartan	E
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'There is fifty pounds in my pocket	P
Besides my trews and brechan	E
Ye'll get my watch and diamond ring	L
And take me to Loch Largan '	-
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Now they've ta'en out his bleeding heart	P
And stuck it on a spear	X
Then took it to the House of Marr	H
And gave it to his dear	X
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But when she saw his bleeding heart	P
She was like one distracted	P
She wrung her hands and tore her hair	I
Crying 'Oh what have I acted	P
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'It's for your sake Sir James the Rose	D
That my poor heart's a breaking	L
Cursed be the day I did thee betray	Y
Thou brave knight o' Buleighan '	-
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Then up she rose and forth she goes	D
And in that fatal hour	O
She bodily was borne away	Y
And never was seen more	Z
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But where she went was never kent	P
And so to end the matter	O
A traitor's end you may depend	P
Can never be no better	O

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