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He went to his daughter and gave her advice,
Said if you go with him I'm ſure your not wiſe,
He's a rude Highland fellow as poor as a crow,
He's the clan of the Catharine for ought that I know.
But if you go with him, I'm ſure you'll gang bare,
You ſhall have nothing that father or mother can ſpare
Of all I poſſeſs I'll deprive you for ay.
If over the hills you do go away.
Its keep what you're not willing to give,
For I fain would go with him as ſure as I live:
What ſignifies gold or treaſure to me,
When the highland hills is between my love and me,
Now ſhe has gone with him in ſpite of them a',
Away to a place that her eyes never ſaw,
He had no ſteed for to carry her on,
But ſtill he ſaid laſſie think not the road long
In a warm ſummer's evening they came to a glen,
Being weary with travel the laſſie ſat down;
Get up my brave laſſie and let us ſtep on,
For the ſun will get round before we get home.
My feet are all torn, my ſhoes are all rent,
I'm wearied with travel, and juſt like to faint.
Were it not for the ſake of your kind company,
I would lie in this deſart until that I die.
The day is far ſpent, and night coming on:
And ſtep ye aſide to yon bonny mill town,
And there you aſk lodgings for you and for me,
For glad would I be in barn to be.
The place it is bonny and pleaſant indeed,
But the people's hard hearted to thoſe that's in need,
Perhaps they'll not grant us barn or byre:
