"I Once Loved a Lass" (Roud 154), also known in Scotland as "The False Bride",[1] is a folk song of the British Isles.
[3] Although widely believed to be a Scottish song, the earliest record of it is from Newcastle upon Tyne.
Some others have sung in a native variety of Scots, such as the recordings by the Clydesiders or Hannah Rarity.
One verse in the song uses some imagery that many listeners struggle to interpret, referred to as "the oldest riddle in Britain".
For her album that contained a recording of the song, Irish singer Karan Casey gave the name Ships in the Forest after this particular verse.