FOOTNOTES:
[1156] aits = oats.
[1157] grat = cried.
[1158] fit = foot.
[136. Johnnie of Cockerslee]
I
Johnnie rose up in a May morning,
Call’d for water to wash his hands;
‘Gar loose to me the gude gray dogs,
That are bound wi’ iron bands.’
II
When Johnnie’s mother gat word o’ that,
Her hands for dule she wrang;
‘O Johnnie, for my benison,
To the greenwood dinna gang!