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.