#b.# _Kinloch has taken fourteen of the seventeen stanzas of #a#
(all but 1, 2, 17) into his printed copy, with a change of a
word here and there (not here noticed), as was his way. The
remaining ten stanzas must be from recitation, if Kinloch is to
be understood strictly._
1.
The laird o Drum is a-wooing gane;
It was on a morning early;
And he has fawn in wi a bonnie may,
A-shearing at her barley.
2.
‘My bonnie may, my weel-faurd may,
O will ye fancy me, O
And gae and be the lady o Drum,
And lat your shearing abee?’ O
3.
‘It’s I canna fancy thee, kind sir,
I winna fancy thee;
I winna gae and be lady o Drum,
And lat my shearing abee.’
_After 3._
My father he is a shepherd mean,
Keeps sheep on yonder hill,
And ye may gae and spier at him,
For I am at his will.