C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Bonny Earl of Murray

1.YE Highlands, and ye Lowlands,

Oh where have you been?

They have slain the Earl of Murray,

And they layd him on the green.

2.“Now wae be to thee, Huntly!

And wherefore did you sae?

I bade you bring him wi’ you,

But forbade you him to slay.”

3.He was a braw gallant,

And he rid at the ring;

And the bonny Earl of Murray,

Oh he might have been a king!

4.He was a braw gallant,

And he play’d at the ba’;

And the bonny Earl of Murray

Was the flower amang them a’.

5.He was a braw gallant,

And he play’d at the glove;

And the bonny Earl of Murray,

Oh he was the Queen’s love!

6.Oh lang will his lady

Look o’er the Castle Down,

E’er she see the Earl of Murray

Come sounding thro the town!