O, give me hold [of] your lily-white finger

“O, give me hold [of] your lily-white finger,

Or give me your whole hand,
And you shall be the lady of my house
And own one half of my land.”
Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, a Scottish ballad by way of Missouri, 1940; The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World, edited by Albert B. Friedman, 1956.

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