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And your father I mak a stand.'

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And a' by the light of the moon, Until they cam to his mother's ha door, And there they lighted down.

15 'Get up, get up, lady mother,' he says, 'Get up, and let me in!

Get up, get up, lady mother,' he says, For this night my fair lady I've win.

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4 She's gien to him a diamond ring, With seven bright diamonds set therein.

5 'When this ring grows pale and wan, 10 You may know by it my love is gane.'

6 One day as he looked his ring upon, He saw the diamonds pale and wan.

7 He left the sea and came to land, And the first that he met was an old beggar man.

8 'What news, what news,' said young Hind Horn;

'No news, no news,' said the old beggar man.

18 'O got ye this by sea or land?

Or got ye it off a dead man's hand?' 19 I got not it by sea, I got it by land, And I got it, madam, out of your own hand.'

20 O I'll cast off my gowns of brown, 40 And beg wi you frae town to town.

21 O I'll cast off my gowns of red,

And I'll beg wi you to win my bread.' 22'Ye needna cast off your gowns of brown,

For I'll make you lady o many a town.

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