Brackley, on the Muick, is in close vicinity to the village of Ballater, on the Dee, some forty miles westward from Aberdeen.
Translated by Knortz, Lieder u. Romanzen Alt-Englands, p. 156, after Allingham.
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a. Scarce Ancient Ballads [Alexander Laing], Aberdeen, 1822, p. 9. b. Buchan’s Gleanings, p. 68. c. The New Deeside Guide, by James Brown (i.e. Joseph Robertson), Aberdeen [1832], p. 46.
1
Inverey cam doun Deeside, whistlin and playin,
He was at brave Braikley’s yett ere it was dawin.
2
He rappit fu loudly an wi a great roar,