For Scotland's conquerd up and down
Landsmen we'll never be:
Now will you go my brethren two,
And try some jeopardy

Then they hae saddled two black horse,
Two black horse and a grey
And they are on to Edwardes host
Before the dawn of day

When they arriv'd before the host
They hover'd on the ley
Will you lend me our King's standard
To carry a little way

Where was thou bred where was thou born
Wherein in what country -
In the north of England I was born
What needed him to lie.

A knight me got a lady bare
I'm a squire of high renown
I well may bear't to any king,
That ever yet wore crown.

He ne'er came of an Englishman
Had sic an ee or bree
But thou art likest auld Maitlen
That ever I did see