#C.#
“The following is an oral version of a ballad which appears in the
first volume of the ‘Minstrelsy.’ I have written it down from
the recitation of a friend who learned it many years ago from
her grandfather, a Mr John Macreddie, farmer, Little Laight
parish of Inch, Wigtonshire. He died in 1813, at the age of
ninety-four, and is supposed to have acquired the song from
tradition in his youth. On comparison, it will be found to
differ in several respects from Sir Walter’s version. 11 Hill
Street, Anderston, Glasgow. W. G.”
#D.#
3^2, 4^2, 6^1, 18^1, oh. 10^1, at, 16^1, then, _added by Mr Murray
in pencil above the line, as if on reading over what he had
written down_.
18^4. _Dr Mitchell gives_: An waps. “ The ower-word,” _he adds_,
“was something like the following:”
Hey tum tidly
Doodlem didly
Hey tum tidly
Doodley dan.
#E.#
2^2. _The reading is perhaps_ pounds.
7^{2,3}. _Absurdity could be avoided by exchanging_ grey mare
_and_ steed.
24^2. by _for_ my.
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