_Before 20_:
‘Haud your tongue, Jeannie Gordon,
Ye needna gloom on me;
I hae but ae half-crown in the warld,
I’ll buy stockings an shoon to thee.’
20^1. If I were in the bonny glens o Ourdlie.
20^2. Where mony bonny days I hae been.
_After 20_:
‘If ye were at bonny Castle Gordon,
An lichtit on the green,
Your faither is a hard-hearted man,
He wald na let you in.’
‘If I were at bonny Castle Gordon,
An lichtit on the green,
My mother’s a good-hearted woman,
She wald open an lat me in.’
22.
The Duke o Gordon cam trippin doun stairs
Wi the saut tear in his ee: (_cf._ 32^2)
‘Ye’re welcome here, Jeannie Gordon,
Wi a’ your young family, (_cf._ 33^2)
Ye’re welcome here, Jeannie Gordon,
But awa wi your Ogilvie.’
23^{1,2}.
The Captain took ship an sailed,
He sailed from the land.
23^3. But a messenger.
23^4. Which caused a countermand.
24^{1,3}. Come back, come back, C. O.
24^4. You are earl.