But I’d rather be on the bonny banks o Spey,

To see the fish-boaties rowing.’


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a. Buchan’s MSS, II, 143. b. Kinloch MSS, VI, 1, in the handwriting of Joseph Robertson.

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‘I choosed my love at the bonny yates of Gight,

Where the birks an the flowers spring bony,

But pleasures I had never one,

But crosses very mony.