Summary

Portrait of Francis James Child Francis James Child The English and Scottish Popular Ballads…

When the supper down was set, baith plum-pudding and pie,
"And will ye go to Conland, this winter-time to lye?"
When they had eaten and well drunken, and a' man bound for bed,
The laddie and the lassie in ae chamber were laid;
He quickly stript her to the smock, and gently laid her bye,
Says, Will ye go to Conland, this winter-time to lye?
But Walter being weary, he fell fast asleep,
And then the lassie thought it fit to start up till her feet;
To start up till her feet, and her petticoats to tye,
"We'll go no more to Conland, the winter-time to lye."
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