Woe’s me for our hame-comin!

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‘For we will a’ be in black, fra the hose to the hat,

Woe’s me for bonny Margat Irvine!

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‘We must to the North, to bury her corps,

Alas for our hame-comin!

I rather I had lost a’ the lands o Aboyne