‘Tho lords o renown hae you courted,

Young Donald your favour has won;

Ye’se get a’ the lands o Kingcaussie,

And Donald M’Donald, my son.’


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Whitelaw’s Book of Scottish Ballads, p. 51, “from the recitation of a lady in Glasgow.”

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There was a braw ball in Edinburgh,

And mony braw ladies were there,