And tho I were to bear him as many more,
They should a’ carry arms for Prince Charlie.’
C
a. Kinloch MSS, V, 205, recited by John Rae. b. Cromek’s Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, p. 226, 1810. c. Smith’s Scottish Minstrel, II, 2. d. Christie’s Traditional Ballad Airs, II, 276, “from the recitation of a relative.”
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It fell on a day, on a bonny summer day,
When the corn grew green and yellow,
That there fell out a great dispute
Between Argyle and Airley.