Mary Hamilton

[Verse 1]
News has come to the kitchen
News came to the hall
That Mary Hamilton's borne a babe
To the highest one of all

[Verse 2]
News has come to the kitchen
News has came to me
That Mary Hamilton's killed her baby
And thrown him in the sea

[Verse 3]
"Mary, put on your robe of black
Or yet your robe of brown
Mary come along with me
And to go to Edenborough town?

[Verse 4]
She put not on your robe of black
Nor yet her robe of brown
She put on her brightest white
To go to Edenborough town

[Verse 5]
Last night I washed the old queen's feet
And carried hеr to her bed
This night she gavе me my reward
The gallows hard to tread

[Verse 6]
Little did my mother think
When first she cradle me
That I should die so far from home
On the gallows tree

[Verse 7]
Happy, happy is the girl
Who's born of beauty free
It is my rosy, dimpled cheek
Has been the ruin of me

[Verse 8]
Last night there were four Marys
This night there'll be but three
There's Mary Beaton, There's Mary Seton
There's Mary Carmichael and me