The False Knight- Motherwell; Child B 1827
[This single stanza of a second version, (Child B) is given with music in Motherwell's Appendix. At the bottom of the page is the note and exact text from Motherwell.]
'The False Knight'- Version B; Child 3, The Fause Knight upon the Road
Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xxiv, No xxxii.
'O WHARE are ye gaun? 'quo the false knight,
And false, false was his rede:
'I'm gaun to the scule,' says the pretty little boy
And still, still he stude.
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From: Minstrelsy, ancient and modern: with an historical introduction and notes; 1827
By William Motherwell
XXXII. THE FALSE KNIGHT.
For one version of this ballad see the Introduction. From another set the tune has been noted. It begins:
O whare are ye gaun, quo' the false knight,
And false false was his rede,
I'm gaun to the scule, says the pretty little boy,
And still still he stude.