"Given from two copies obtained from recitation, which differ but little from each other. Indeed, the only variation is in the verse where the outlawed brother unweetingly slays his sister." [19.] Motherwell.
b.
19.
He's taken out his wee penknife,
Hey how bonnie
And he's twined her o her ain sweet life.
On the, etc.
c.
The first stanza, only:
There were three sisters livd in a bower,
Fair Annet and Margaret and Marjorie
And they went out to pu a flower.
And the dew draps off the hyndberry tree
[B]. a.
"To a wild melancholy old tune not in any collection."
"N.B. There are a great many other verses which I could not recover. Upon describing her brothers, the banished man finds that he has killed his two brothers and two sisters,—upon which he kills himself." Herd.
22. MS. Quhen.