LANG JOHNNY MOIR. See p. [50].
From Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, i. 248.
There lives a man in Rynie's land,
Anither in Auchindore;
The bravest lad amo' them a',
Was lang Johnny Moir.
Young Johnny was an airy blade,5
Fu' sturdy, stout, and strang;
The sword that hang by Johnny's side,
Was just full ten feet lang.
Young Johnny was a clever youth,
Fu' sturdy, stout, and wight;10
Just full three yards around the waist,
And fourteen feet in hight.
But if a' be true they tell me now,
And a' be true I hear,
Young Johnny's on to Lundan gane,15
The king's banner to bear.
He hadna been in fair Lundan
But twalmonths twa or three,
Till the fairest lady in a' Lundan