5. The burden is here: Sing, Fadle fidle, etc.
C.
“The following is an oral version of a ballad which appears in the first volume of the ‘Minstrelsy.’ I have written it down from the recitation of a friend who learned it many years ago from her grandfather, a Mr John Macreddie, farmer, Little Laight parish of Inch, Wigtonshire. He died in 1813, at the age of ninety-four, and is supposed to have acquired the song from tradition in his youth. On comparison, it will be found to differ in several respects from Sir Walter’s version. 11 Hill Street, Anderston, Glasgow. W. G.”
D.
32, 42, 61, 181, oh. 101, at, 161, then, added by Mr Murray in pencil above the line, as if on reading over what he had written down.
184. Dr Mitchell gives: An waps. “ The ower-word,” he adds, “was something like the following:”
Hey tum tidly
Doodlem didly
Hey tum tidly
Doodley dan.