Down went their heads, up came their wame:
Though people stood on ev’ry shore,
Alas! their lives were now no more.
Both men and women were wash’d away,
Into the firth of Sollaway.
And some at Bowness were cast out,
At Annan-foot and thereabout.
To Gretna, and Annan they march away,
Thence to Dumfries on the next day,
And charg’d a ransom off that town,