42. has her.
72. sweet is omitted.
Printed as from the MS. in Dixon's Scottish Traditional Versions, etc., p. 46. Dixon has changed baby to babies in 4, 5, 6, 8, and indulges in other variations.
[H].
The ballad had been heard with two different burdens; besides the one given in the text, this:
Three and three, and three by three
Ah me, some forty three
7 'Lady Mary Ann,' Johnson's Museum, No 377, begins:
O Lady Mary Ann looks oer the castle wa,
She saw three bonie boys playing at the ba.
[I]. a, b.
141, 161. fool, i.e. fowl spelt phonetically.