The Book of Scottish Song/Bannocks o' barley

Bannocks o' barley.

[This is a fragment of a Jacobitical song contributed by Burns to Johnson's Museum. A spurious addition to it is given by Cromek in his "Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song." The old tune of "Bannocks o' barley" was originally called "The Killogie," and was sung to words, here inadmissible, beginning,

"A lad and a lassie lay in a Killogie."

Hogg, in his Jacobite Relics, vol. i., gives a song to the same tune, called "Cakes of Crowdy," written against the Revolution of 1688, but it is not worth quoting.]

Bannocks o' bear-meal, bannocks o' barley!
Here's to the Highlandman's bannocks o' barley!
Wha in a brulyie will first cry a parley?
Never the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley.
Bannocks o' bear-meal, bannocks o' barley!
Here's to the Highlandman's bannocks o' barley!

Wha, in his wae days, were loyal to Charlie?
Wha but the lads wi' the bannocks o' barley:
Bannocks o' bear-meal, &c.

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