The Twa Corbies - Teufelstanz

As I was walking all alane,

I heard twa corbies making a mane;

The tane unto the t’other say,

«Where sall we gang and dine to-day?»

«In behint yon auld fail dyke,

I wot there lies a new slain knight;

And naebody kens that he lies there,

But his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair.

His hound is to the hunting gane,

His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,

His lady’s ta’en another mate,

So we may mak our dinner sweet.

Ye’ll sit on his white hause-bane,

And I’ll pike out his bonny blue een;

Wi ae lock o his gowden hair

We’ll theek our nest when it grows bare.

There is mony a one for him makes mane,

But nane sall ken where he is gane;

Oer his white banes, when they are bare,

The wind sall blaw for evermair".