C

The Edinburgh Topographical, Traditional, and Antiquarian Magazine, 1849, p. 58; communicated by W. G. “from the recitation of a friend, who learned it many years ago from her grandfather,” a farmer in Wigtonshire, who died in 1813, at the age of ninety-four.

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It’s hae ye heard tell o the auld harper

That lang lived in Lochmaben town,

How he maun awa to England fair,

To steal King Henry’s Wanton Brown?

Faw aiden diden an diden an diden

Faw aiden diden faw aiden dee

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