Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - End-Notes

Andrew Lammie

C. a.  93. Love so oppressd: b, has possessd.
114. mony: b, many.
443. flower: b, flower's.
471. home: b, hame.
482. For perhaps Aberdonian for Where: b, Where.
b.  Insignificant variations will not be noted.
71. She sighed sore, but said no more.
82. Sound for soon (soun?).
93. Love has possessd.
114. many.
134. Of Tiftie's bonny Annie.
After 14:
  When Lord Fyvie had this letter read,
O dear! but he was sorry:
'The bonniest lass in Fyvie's land
Is bewitched by Andrew Lammie.'
16, 17 are 17, 16.
161. Woe betide Mill.
163. He'll no hae 't.
After 18:
  'Here you shall find a boy so kind
Who'll carry a letter canny,
Who will run on to Tiftie's town,
And gie 't to thy love Annie.'
193. a' the lave.
203,4. and meet thy love, Thy bonny Andrew Lammie.
21   'When wilt thou come, and I'll attend?
My love, I long to see thee:'
'Thou mayst come to the bridge of Sleugh,
And there I'll come and meet thee.'
242. As my name's.
261. Our time.
283. schill.
304. Thau hae a' the kine.
352. she's adorned with.
361. are fair. After 43:
  But the word soon went up and down,
Through all the lands of Fyvie,
That she was dead and buried,
Even Tiftie's bonny Annie.
443. flower's.
451. O woe betide Mill.
After 46:
  Her mother grieves both air and late,
Her sisters, cause they scornd her;
Surely her brother doth mourn and grieve
For the cruel usage he'd givn her.
  But now alas! it was too late,
For they could not recal her;
Through life unhappy is their fate
Because they did controul her.
471. hame.
472. love has died.
482. Where.
484. parted last with Annie.
After 49:
~~   Ye parents grave who children have,
In crushing them be canny,
Lest when too late you do repent;
Remember Tiftie's Annie.

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