With sic a face as thine, lady.’
Title: Old Song, Rob Roy. Tune, Jonny Fa, the Gipsy Laddy.
After 14. Tune, Had away frae me, Donald.
Here may be added, as an appendix, a fragment of a ballad on the “Abduction of Nelly Symon.” “The chorus is in Gaelic and the song is sung to one of the finest native airs.” From The Aberdeen Herald and Weekly Free Press, February 3, 1883.
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They hoised her up upon a mare;
It was not for her gowd nor gear;
’T was for her beauty, keen and rare,
That they stealt Ellen Symon.
Se ho or so gur tallum tallum,