She’s put her hand to her pocket,
She’s pulld out ducats many,
An she’s telld down, etc.
27^1. _Var._ she blessd.
28^{3,4}. _No indication that this is an imperfect stanza. The
last line is nearly bound in, and not easy to read._
30^3. Gar print, etc.
#b.#
_Variations written on the margin of #a#._
1^3. The Laird of Gigh has killd a man.
2^3. That will gae rin to the yates of Gigh.
7^1. Burntisland sands _for_ the water-side.
8^1. the water-yate.
8^3. dealt the red gold them amang.
14.
’Twas up than spak a gentleman,
Was ca’d the Laird of Logie,
War Gighie’s head but on the blo[ck],
If I had his fair ladie!’
21^1. the gude Argyle _for_ a Scottish lord.
21^2. He’s been a friend to many.
#C. a.#
“This song was taken down from a Miss Christy Robertson, Dunse,
who sung it to a very pretty old tune. Being an old maid
herself, she did not let it want any of the original plainture
which I suppose the original air would have.”
_The MS. of Thomas Wilkie is inscribed, at the beginning,_
Gattonside, 4th Sept., 1813; _at the end,_ Bowden, 2d Sept.,
1815.
6^3. goud _written over_ guineas.
8^{1,2}. _Var._ six _for_ ten, seventh _for_ eleventh.
10^1. a kind-hearted man, _wanting in #b#, has evidently been
supplied._
12^{1,2}. _Supplied: originally only_ A man spoke loud.
12^3. Geordie’s _written over_ his; were _over_ had been.
#b.#
2^3. shirt.
4^2. And they saddled to her.
6^3. red goud.
7^1. When she.
9^1. Geight.
10^1. a kind-hearted man _wanting_.
12^{1,2}. A man spoke loud.
13^4. my _wanting_.
14^2 And herself.
#D.#
2^2. goud and money _substituted for_ hose and shoon _struck out_.
9^2. they _struck out before_ was.