Edward - Child Ballad #13

I have not done a Child Ballad for a while so went looking through Raymond Crooke's 375 recordings to find one I could re-interpret.

Here is Raymond's recording:
   • 607. Edward, Edward (Child 13) - (Tra...  

And a good analysis of the ballad here:
https://betterknowachildballad.wordpr...

I tried to sing as close as possible to this recording by John Brune:
   • Edward (Child 13) - John Brune  

I have 'de-scotsified' most of the words to make it easily understandable to the modern listener. You can see all the detail of the original language here:
https://allpoetry.com/Edward,-Edward

Images from Pixabay.

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