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a. Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 194. b. Buchan’s MSS, II, 101. c. The New Deeside Guide, by James Brown [Joseph Robertson], [1832], p. 11. d. Gibb MS., p. 21, No 4, from the recitation of a schoolfellow at Auchinblae, Kincardineshire, about 1851.
1
The laird o Drum is a hunting gane,
All in a morning early,
And he did spy a well-far’d may,
Was shearing at her barley.
2
‘O will ye fancy me, fair may,
And let your shearing be, O