The burden (here given with only the first stanza) is from time to time varied.
31, 61. Oh.
After 7. George’s Confession.
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BONNIE JAMES CAMPBELL
A. Herd’s MSS, I, 40, II, 184.
B. Finlay’s Scottish Ballads, 1808, I, xxxiii.
C. ‘Bonnie George Campbell,’ Smith’s Scotish Minstrel, V, 42.
D. Cunningham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 2.
A was copied by Sir Walter Scott (with slight variations) into a MS. at Abbotsford, ‘Scottish Songs,’ fol. 68 (1795–1806). The first half is printed from notes of Scott in Laing’s edition of Sharpe’s Ballad Book, pp. 143, 156 f, and to these two stanzas, nearly as here printed, there are added in the second case, p. 157, the following verses, which are evidently modern, with the exception of the last:
His hawk and his hounds they are wandered and gane,