And this night she would have a sore, sore heart
For to see me lye down with a Highland laddie.’
5
‘Ye are your mother’s ae daughter,
And she had nae mae unto your daddie;
This night she need not have a sore, sore heart
For to see you lie down with a Highland laddie.
6
‘I have four-and-twenty acres of land,
It is ploughed, it is sown, and is always ready,