Kinloch Manuscripts, V, 379, in the handwriting of John Hill
Burton.
| 1 |
'Baron of Brackley, are ye in there?
The're sharp swords at yer yetts, winna ye spear.' |
| 2 |
If they be gentlemen, lat them cum in;
But if they be reavers, we'll gar them be taen.' |
| 3 |
It is na gentlemen, nor yet pretty lads,
But a curn hir'd widdifus, wears belted plaids.' |
| 4 |
She called on her women and bade them come in:
'Tack a' yer rocks, lasses, and we'll them coman. |
| 5 |
'We'll fecht them, we'll slight them, we'll do what we can,
And I vow we will shoot them altho we shod bang. |
| 6 |
'Rise up, John,' she said, a+end turn in yer kye,
For they'll hae them to the Hielands, and you they'l defie.' |
| 7 |
'Had your still, Catharine, and still yer young son,
For ye'll get me out, but I'll never cum in.' |
| 8 |
'If I had a man, as I hae na nane,
He wudna lye in his bed and see his kye tane.' |
| 9 |
'Ye'll cum kiss me, my Peggy, and bring me my gun,
For I'm gaing out, but I'll never cum in.' |
| 10 |
There was twenty wi Invery, twenty and ten;
There was nane wi the baron but his brother and him. |
| 11 |
At the head of Reneeten the battle began;
Ere they wan Auchoilzie, they killed mony a man. |
| 12 |
They killed Harry Gordon and Harry of the Knock,
The mullertd's four sons up at Glenmuick. |
| 13 |
They killed Harry Gordon and Harry of the Knock,
And they made the brave baron like kail to a pot. |
| 14 |
First they killed ane, and then they killed twa,
Then they killed the brave baron, the flower o them a'. |
| 15 |
Then up came Craigievar, and a party wi him[
If he had come an hour sooner, Brackley had not been slain. |
| 16 |
'Came ye by Brackley? and was ye in there?
Or say ye his lady, was making great care?' |
| 17 |
'I came by Brackley, and I was in there,
But I saw his lady no making great care. |
| 18 |
'For she eat wi them, drank wi them, welcomed them in;
She drank to the villain that killed her guid man. |
| 19 |
'Woe to ye, Kate Fraser! sorry may yer heart be,
To see yer brave baron's blood cum to yer knee.' |
| 20 |
There is dule in the kitchen, and mirth i the ha,
But the Baron o B[r]ackley is dead and awa. |
