a. Kinloch MSS, V, 130; in the handwriting of James Beattie. b. Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 192.
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There was a battle in the north,
And rebels there were many,
And they were a’ brought before the king,
And taken was my Geordie.
My Geordie O, O my Geordie O,
O the love I bear to Geordie!
For the very ground I walk upon
Bears witness I love Geordie.