Kinloch MSS, VII, 153; from the recitation of Miss M. Kinnear, August 23, 1826, a North Country version.
1
The lassie sang sae loud, sae loud,
The lassie sang sae shill;
The lassie sang, and the greenwud rang,
At the farther side o yon hill.
2
Bye there cam a troop o merry gentlemen,
They aw rode merry bye;
The very first and the foremaist