Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, Appendix, p. xvii, IX.
‘O come down stairs, Jamie Douglas,
O come down stairs and speak to me,
And I’ll set thee in a fine chair of gowd,
And I’ll kindly daut thee upon my knee.
Variations of Waly, Waly, etc.
a.
Put among ‘Auld Sangs brushd up’ in Ramsay’s “Contents,” p. 329. Printed in eight-line stanzas.
4. Burns had heard this stanza “in the west country” thus (Cromek’s Reliques, 1817, p. 245):