.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

‘I rader I had lost a’ the lans of Aboyne

Or I had lost bonny Margrat Irven.’

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He called on his best servang-man,

I wat they [caed] him Piter Gordon:

‘Ye gett our hosses sadled we speed,

Vou’s me for our hear coming!

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