Come in, Jock Sheep, an ye’ll get yer sark.’
As delivered, 5-8 precede 2-4.
17, 484 b. M. Findlay’s MSS, I, 21, from the recitation of Jeany Meldrum, Framedrum, Forfarshire.
17, II, 495 b. In The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend, III, 7, ‘Whittingham Fair’ is given by Mr Stokoe with a few variations.
1. Second line of refrain,
For once she was a true lover of mine.
2, 4. Second line of refrain,
Then she shall be a true lover.
3. Second line of refrain,
And she shall be a true lover.
5. Second line of refrain,
Before he shall be a true lover.
6. Second line of refrain,
Then he shall be a true lover.
7, 8, 9. Second line of refrain,
And he shall be a true lover.
61. to buy.
81. to sheer’t.
After 8:
Tell him to thrash it on yonder wall,
And never let one corn of it fall.