Gibb MS., p. 9. “From recitation; traced to Mary Jack, Lochlee, Forfarshire, died 1881, aged 94.”

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Bonny may has to the ewe-bughts gane,

To milk her father’s ewes,

An aye as she milked her bonny voice rang

Far out amang the knowes.

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‘Milk on, milk on, my bonny, bonny may,

Milk on, milk on,’ said he;