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Joseph Robertson’s Journal of Excursions, No 6; “taken down from a man in the parish of Leochel, 12 February, 1829.”
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1
There was four and twenty gentlemen,
As they were ridin by,
And aff there loups the head o them,
Cums in to this fair may.
2
‘It’s a mark and a mark and a misty night,
And we canna know the way;
And ye wad be as gude to us
As shew us on the way.’
3
‘Ye’ll get a boy for meat,’ she says,
‘Ye’ll get a boy for fee,
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That will shew you the right way.’
4
‘We’ll get a boy for meat,’ he says,
‘We’ll get a boy for fee,
But we do not know where to seek
That bonny boy out.’
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5
‘It’s foul befa my auld father’s men,
An ill death mat they die!
They’ve biggit the ewe bucht sae far frae the town
They’ve tristed the men to me.’