| A. a. |
14. below.
41. Oh.
83,4. The gap should be filled, says Stenhouse,
Musical Museum, IV) 405, with these lines:
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As to gar her sit in [her] father's kitchen-neuk
And balow a bastard babie. |
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| b. |
1, 2.
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'Aft hae I played at the ring and the ba,
And lang was a rantin lassie,
But now my father does me forsake,
And my friends they all do neglect me.' |
31. But gin I had servants.
32. As I hae had right mony.
33. For to send awa to Glentanner's yetts.
41. O is your true-love a laird or lord.
42. he a Highland caddie.
43. That ye sae aften call him by name.
51. My true-love he's baith laird and lord.
52. Do ye think I hae married a caddie?
53. O he is the noble earl o Aboyne.
54. he's my bonnie rantin.
61. ye'se hae servants.
62. As ye hae had right mony.
63. For to send awa to Glentanner's yetts.
64. Wi a.
71. Aboyne the letter got.
72. Wow but.
73. But ere three lines o it he read.
74. O but his.
81,2. His face it reddened like a flame,
He grasped his sword sae massy.
83 = 81. wha is this, etc.
84 = 82. Sae cruel to, etc.
9. Wanting.
101. Gae saddle to me five.
102. Gae saddle and.
104. For I 'm gaing to.
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And when they came to auld Fedderate
He found her waiting ready,
And he brought her to Castle Aboyne,
And now she's his ain dear lady. |
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| B. |
91. he gett.
101. He gat. |
| D. |
There is an initial stanza which, it seems to
me, cannot have belonged originally to this
ballad:
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'My father he feet me far, far away,
He feet me in Kirkcaldy;
He feet me till an auld widow-wife,
But she had a bonnie rantin laddie.' |
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