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“Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 140, Abbotsford; in the handwriting of James Hogg, who remarks at the end: “The repeater of the above song called the hero once or twice Johny Scott, which I ommitted in the MS., seeing it contradicted in the 22 verse. I thought it best to apprise you of this, in case you might find any tract of its being founded on fact, because, if it is not, it hath little else to reccomend it.”
1
O Johny’s up thro England gane
Three quarters of a year,
An Johny’s up thro England gane,
The king’s banner to bear.
2
He had not been in London town
But a very little while