And at his foot war his babies three.

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‘Ga fetch, ga fetch a bottle of wine,

That I may drink to my gay ladie;’

She took the cup into her hand,

But her bonnie heart it broke in three.


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Kinloch MSS, VII, 127; 24 April, 1826, from the recitation of Jenny Watson, Lanark, aged 73, who had it from her grandmother.

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