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Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

222. Bonny Baby Livingston

P. 231 f. "I can get a copy of a ballad the repeating verse of which is:

  The Highlands are no for me,
The Highlands are no for me;
But gin ye wad my favour win
Than carry me to Dundee.

His name is sometimes called Glendinnin, and his residence the same: however, I think it is a Highland ballad, from other circumstances." W. Laidlaw to Sir W. Scott, September 11, 1802: Letters, I, No 73. Compare D.

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