That is made of the mettle so fine,

And when thou comst to the border-side,

Remember the death of Sir Hugh of the Grime.’


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Johnson’s Museum, No 303, p. 312, contributed by Burns; Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns, 4th ed., 1817, p. 287; Cromek, Select Scottish Songs, etc., 1810, II, 151. From oral tradition in Ayrshire.

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Our lords are to the mountains gane,

A hunting o the fallow deer,

And they hae gripet Hughie Graham,