b.
Mr Christie has "epitomized" Buchan's copy (omitting stanzas 9-12), with these few slight alterations from the singing of a Banffshire woman, who died in 1860, at the age of nearly eighty:
Burden: It's hey, etc.
22. And he courted the eldest wi mony other thing.
31. But it fell.
52. And the eldest.
[P]. b.
This stanza only:
There livd twa sisters in a bower,
Hey my bonnie Annie O
There cam a lover them to woo.
And the swan swims bonnie O,
And the swan swims bonnie O
[Q].