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Stone and Lime Wall

[ Roud 18524 ; G/D 6:1216 ; Ballad Index GrD61216 ; trad.]

Amy Leach and Alasdair Paul sang Stone and Lime Wall in 2026 on their album They’ll Aye Remain. They noted:

The Greig-Duncan collection has many records of this love song. Rarely sung today, perhaps because it uses some of the least romantic metaphors found in the oral tradition.

Lyrics

Amy Leach and Alasdair Paul sing Stone and Lime Wall

You’ve aye been my ruin, my sudden downfall
But my heart will enclose you like a stone and lime wall

Like a sheet of white paper, her neck and breast roond
Wi her body neat and slender an her hair hinging doon

You’re a pattern for Venus, you’re an honour for me
I’ll leave the whole worldy and I’ll follow Molly

So at our next meeting, our joy we’ll renew
We’ll change the green and yellow for the violet so blue