Good And Wise Ideas

Things from the English and Scottish Popular Ballads that you should totally do

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Nurse the Queen of Elfland’s child

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Marry a gunner good, and a right fine gunner he’ll be, and the very first shot that e'er he shoots will kill my young son and me

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are you reblogging to the correct blog? the last two posts didn't seem child ballad related

haha WHOOPS, thanks anon!

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Go off, Janet

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Fight four-and-twenty highland men when they try to steal you away, because you will not be a bride, a bride, you will not be a bride

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Lose your sheath, and the knife therein

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be called willie

or be called Margaret

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True Thomas Went To Fair Elfland And All He Got Was These Shoes Of The Velvet Green, And A Tongue That Cannot Lie

Experts ask, “how shall he counsel prince or lord, or woo a fair lady?”

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Make a harp out of a dead body’s ribcage

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Call out louder than a horn

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Ask your bedsheets if your wife is a virgin

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Own pins made only of silver

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Lock the doors and stop the windows, leave not even a hole for a mouse to crawl in

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Beware the very first morning of May

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Have hanging from your girdle fifty silver bells and ten, hanging fifty bells and ten

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In your pack a long knife carry for to cut mince pies from children’s thighs, with which to feed the fairies

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More meat, more meat you bring to me! Go kill your berry brown horse and bring in it here to me