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Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., First Volume

David Herd: Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., First Volume

David Herd,
Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc.
First Volume.
Edinburgh: John Wotherspoon, 1776.
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Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Part First, Heroic Ballads, and Fragments

  1. Gil Morrice (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735)
  2. Edom of Gordon (Roud 80; Child 178; G/D 2:231)
  3. Johnnie Armstrang (Roud 76; Child 169)
  4. Young Waters (Roud 2860; Child 94)
  5. Bonny Barbara Allen (Roud 54; Child 84; G/D 6:1193; Henry H236)
  6. Bonny Earl of Murray (Roud 334; Child 181)
  7. The Young Laird of Ochiltree (Roud 81; Child 182; G/D 2:247)
  8. Lord Thomas and Fair Annet (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212)
  9. Sir Patrick Spence (Roud 41; Child 58; G/D 1:17)
  10. Sir James the Rose (Roud 2274; Child 213; G/D 2:235)
  11. The Battle of Harlaw (Roud 2861; Child 163; G/D 1:112)
  12. Flodden-Field (Roud V30014)
  13. The Battle of Reid-Sqauir (Roud 2863)
  14. Chevy-Chace (Roud 223; Child 162)
  15. Edward, Edward (Roud 200; Child 13; TYG 35)
  16. Lady Bothwell’s Lament (Roud 2864; G/D 8:1560)
  17. The Braes of Yarrow (Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bonny bride) (Roud 5838; G/D 2:216)
  18. Gilderoy (Roud 1486)
  19. William’s Ghost (Roud 50; Child 77)
  20. William and Margaret (Roud 253; Child 74; G/D 2:337)
  21. Waly, Waly (Roud 87; Child 204)
  22. Willie’s Drown’d in Yarrow (Roud 206; Child 215; G/D 6:1227)
  23. Bothwell (Roud 22; Child 5)
  24. Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Roud 253; Child 74; G/D 2:337)
  25. Fine Flowers o’ the Valley (Roud 26; Child 11)
  26. Lizie Wan (Roud 234; Child 51)
  27. May Colvin (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163)
  28. The Wee Wee Man (Roud 2865; Child 38)
  29. Sir Hugh (Roud 73; Child 155)
  30. Bonnie May (Roud 92; Child 217; G/D 4:838)
  31. MacPherson’s Rant (Roud 2160; G/D 3:697)
  32. Gillicrankie (Roud 2866)
  33. Sherriff-Muir (Roud 2867)
  34. Tranent Muir (Roud 29147)
  35. The Archer’s March (Roud V44951)
  36. General Lesly’s March (Roud 8184)
  37. Highland March (Roud 12814)
  38. Little Wat Ye Wha’s Coming (Roud 9746)

Fragments of Heroic Ballads

  1. Hardyknute, or The Battle of Largs (Roud 8180)
  2. Duncan (Saw Ye the Thane) (Roud B124181)
  3. Kenneth (I weird, I weird, hard-hearted lord)
  4. Frennet Hall (Roud 336; Child 196; G/D 2:232)
  5. Earl Douglas (Roud 87; Child 204)
  6. Yarrow Braes (I Dream’d a Dreary Dream) (Roud B242999)
  7. Lammikin (Roud 6; Child 93; G/D 2:187; Henry H735)
  8. She Has Call’d to Her Her Bower-Maidens (Earl Richard) (Roud 47; Child 68)
  9. The Bonny Lass of Lochroyan (Roud 49; Child 76; G/D 6:1226)
  10. The Battle of Otterburn (Roud 3293; Child 161)
  11. The Jew’s Daughter (Roud 73; Child 155)
  12. There Gowans Are Gay (Roud 4295)
  13. Kertonha’; or, The Fairy Court (Roud 35; Child 39; G/D 2:330)
  14. Clerk Colvill; or, The Mermaid (Roud 147; Child 42)
  15. Willie and Annet (Roud 44; Child 64; G/D 6:1100)
  16. The Cruel Knight (Roud 56; Child 88; G/D 8:1929)
  17. Wha Will Bake my Brial Bread (Roud 42; Child 62; G/D 6:1161; Henry H126)
  18. I’ll Wager, I’ll Wager (Roud 34; Child 43; G/D 2:322; Henry H135)

Part Second, Sentimental and Love Songs

  1. An Thou Wert My Ain Thing (Roud 8681)
  2. Wert Thou But Mine Ain Thing (Roud 8712)
  3. My Sheep I Neglected (Roud 8680)
  4. Alloa-House (Roud 8679)
  5. Oh How Could I Venture (Roud 8710)
  6. Auld Lang Syne (Roud 13892)
  7. When Floury Meadows (Roud 8711)
  8. Allan Water (Roud 4259)
  9. Broom of Cowdenknows (How blythe, ilk morn, was I to see) (Roud 8709)
  10. Broom of Cowdenknows (When summer comes, the swains on Tweed) (Roud 8708)
  11. Bonny Jean (Roud 8475)
  12. Now Spring Begins Her Smiling Round (Roud 8678)
  13. Banks of Forth (Roud 8677)
  14. Ye Sylvan Pow’rs (Roud 8676)
  15. Bush Aboon Traquair (Roud 8198)
  16. Birks of Invermay (Roud 3858)
  17. Braes of Ballenden (Roud 8675)
  18. Braes of Yarrow (Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bride) (Roud 5838; G/D 2:216)
  19. Bonny Boatman (Roud 8477)
  20. Blink Over the Burn, Sweet Betty (Roud 8476)
  21. Bessy’s Haggies (Roud 8674)
  22. Bonniest Lass in A’ the Warld (Roud 8673)
  23. Bonny Christy (Roud 8475)
  24. Bessy Bell and Mary Gray (Roud 237; Child 201; G/D 6:1257)
  25. Bonny Lass of Branksome (Roud 8474)
  26. Charms of Lovely Peggy (Roud 8473)
  27. Cold Frosty Morning (Roud 8472)
  28. Cumbernauld House (Roud 8671)
  29. Corn Rigs Are Bonny (Roud 8670)
  30. Collier’s Bonny Lassie (Roud 8410)
  31. Down the Burn, Davie (Roud 8472)
  32. Dumbarton’s Drums (Roud 8669)
  33. Dunt, Dunt, Pittie, Pattie (Roud 8668)
  34. The Deceiver (Roud 8667)
  35. Ettrick Banks (Roud 8666)
  36. Ewe-Bughts Marion (Roud 8405)
  37. Flowers of the Forest (Roud 3812)
  38. Adieu Ye Streams (Roud 8707)
  39. Flowers of Edinburgh (Roud 8480)
  40. Fourteenth of October (Roud 8665)
  41. Fairest of Her Days (Roud 8664)
  42. Gilderoy (Roud 1486)
  43. Gallowshiels (Roud 8662)
  44. Green Sleeves (Roud 8703)
  45. Highland Laddie (Roud 8481)
  46. Bonny Highland Lassie (Roud 8661)
  47. Had Awa Frae Me Donald (O come awa’, come awa’) (Roud 8719)
  48. Had Awa Frae Me Donald (Her Answer to) (Roud 8720)
  49. Hay’s Bonny Lassie (Roud 8491)
  50. Hap Me Wi’ Thy Petticoat (Roud 8492)
  51. Happy Clown (Roud 8493)
  52. Hallow Even (Roud 8494)
  53. I’ll Never Leave Thee (Tho’ for seven years and mair) (Roud 8660)
  54. I’ll Never Leave Thee (One day I heard Mary say) (Roud 8557)
  55. I Wish My Love Were in a Myre (Roud 8489)
  56. Jocky Blyth and Gay (Roud 8490)
  57. I’ll Ne’er Love Thee More [Marquis of Montrose] (Roud 8495)
  58. I Fixt My Fancy on Her (Roud 8659)
  59. I’ll Gar Ye Be Fain to Follow Me (Roud 8658)
  60. John Anderson My Jo (Roud 8716)
  61. Jocky and Jenny (Roud 8657)
  62. Katherine Ogie (Roud 8406)
  63. Kind Robin Lo’s Me (Roud 5523)
  64. Last Time I Came O’er the Muir (Roud 8496)
  65. Logan Water (For ever, fortune, will thou prove) (Roud 6844)
  66. Tell Me Hamilla, Tell Me Why (Roud 8656)
  67. Leader Haughs (When Phoebus bright the azure skies) (Roud 8655)
  68. Leader Haughs (Morn was fair, saft was the air) (Roud 8704)
  69. Lochaber No More (Roud 8497)
  70. Love Is the Cause of My Mourning (By a murmuring stream) (Roud 8488)
  71. Lack of Gold (Roud 8483)
  72. Lass of Livingston (Roud 8654)
  73. Mary Scott (Roud 8484)
  74. ’Twas Summer, and the Day Was Fair (Roud 8485)
  75. The Mill, Mill O (Roud 8486; G/D 7:1437)
  76. My Deary an’ Thou Die (Roud 8487)
  77. Nanny O (Roud 8653)
  78. Omnia Vincit Amor (Roud 8482)
  79. O’er Bogie (Roud 6134; G/D 4:877)
  80. Pinky House (Roud 8471)
  81. As Sylvia in a Forest Lay (Roud 8652)
  82. Peggy, I Must Love Thee (As from a rock past all relief) (Roud 8470)
  83. Peggy, I Must Love Thee (Beneath a beech’s grateful shade) (Roud 8705)
  84. Polwart on the Green (Roud 8407)
  85. Tho’ Beauty Like the Rose (Roud 8713)
  86. Peaty’s Mill (Roud 8651)
  87. Pier of Leith (Roud 8650)
  88. Patie and Peggy (Roud 8649)
  89. Queen of the May (Roud 594)
  90. Queen Mary (Roud 8648)
  91. Highland Queen (Roud 8649)
  92. Roslin Castle (’Twas in that season of the year) (Roud 8408)
  93. Roslin Castle (From Roslin castle’s echoing walls) (Roud 8714)
  94. Ranting, Roaring Willie (Roud 8647)
  95. Sae Merry As We Hae Been (Roud 8468)
  96. Now Phoebus Advances on High (Roud 8646)
  97. Sae Ye Nae My Peggy (Roud 7156; G/D 7:1415)
  98. She Rose and Let Me in (Roud 8645)
  99. Slighted Love Fair to Bide (Roud 8644)
  100. Soger Laddie (Roud 8643)
  101. Tweed-Side (Roud 8642)
  102. Throw the Wood, Laddie (Roud 8641)
  103. To Danton Me (Roud 8717)
  104. Woe’s My Heart That We Should Sunder (Roud 8640)
  105. Speak on, Speak Thus (Roud 8715)
  106. The Wauking of the Faulds (Roud 8639)
  107. In April When Primroses Paint (Roud 8697)
  108. Peggy and Patie (When first my dear laddie) (Roud 8706)
  109. I Yield, Dear Lassie (Roud 8638)
  110. Were I Assur’d You’ll Constant Prove (Roud 8663)
  111. Weel, I Agree, Ye’re Sure of Me (Roud 8636)
  112. Now from Rusticity and Love (Roud 8637)
  113. Duty and Part of Reason (Roud 8638)
  114. At Setting Day and Rising Morn (Roud 8634)
  115. Bonny Green-Eyed Morn (Roud 8633)
  116. Sweet Annie Frae the Sea Beach Came (Roud 8479)
  117. Deil Tak the Wars (Roud 8409)
  118. Elore Lo (Roud 8205)
  119. Wo Worth the Time (Roud 8632)
  120. The Flower of Yarrow (Roud 8631)
  121. Original of Tweedside (Roud 8683)
  122. Kind Robin Looes Me (Roud 5523)

> Folk Music > Books > David Herd: Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., Second Volume

Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., Second Volume

David Herd: Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc., First Volume

David Herd,
Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc.
Second Volume.
Edinburgh: John Wotherspoon, 1776.
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Songs

The songs are referenced by page numbers.

Fragments of Sentimental and Love Songs

  1. How Can I Be Blyth or Glad (Roud 8612)
  2. The Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180)
  3. Lizae Baillie (Roud 341; Child 227)
  4. O Gin My Love Were Yon Red Rose (Roud 6751; G/D 5:936)
  5. Love Is the Cause of My Mourning (Beneath a green willow’s ominous shade) (Roud 8630)
  6. Good Morrow, Fair Mistress (Roud 5522; G/D 6:1206)
  7. False Luve! and hae ze played me this (Roud 8613)
  8. O My Bonny, Bonny May (Roud 8614)

Part Third, Comic and Humorous Songs

  1. Apron Deary (Roud 8700)
  2. Auld Rob Morris (Roud 8567)
  3. Auld Goodman (Roud 8568)
  4. Auld Sir Simon the King (Roud 8566)
  5. The Auld Wife Beyont the Fire (Roud 4294; G/D 7:1423)
  6. Andro and His Cutty Gun (Roud 2968; Henry H36)
  7. Bagrie O’t (Roud 8565)
  8. Birks of Abergeldie (I thought it ance a lonesome life) (Roud 5071)
  9. Bob of Dumblane (Roud 806)
  10. Butter May (Roud 8564)
  11. Blythsome Bridal (Roud 5889; G/D 3:606)
  12. The Jolly Beggar (Roud 118; Child 279; G/D 2:274)
  13. The Humble Beggar (Roud 5511)
  14. Country Lass (Roud 5520)
  15. Clout the Cauldron (Roud 8563)
  16. Carle Came O’er the Craft (Roud 362; G/D 4:815)
  17. Cast Away Care (Roud 8562)
  18. Cock Laird (Roud 8465)
  19. Dainty Davie (While sops in saft Italian verse) (Roud 2387)
  20. Druken Wife o’ Gallowa (Roud 5654; G/D 3:584)
  21. For Our Lang Biding Here (Roud 8561)
  22. For the Sake of Somebody (Roud 5507)
  23. Fy Gar Rub Her O’er Wi’ Strae (Roud 8464)
  24. Fint a Crum of Thee She Fa’s (Roud 8469)
  25. Fee Him, Father, Fee Him (Roud 8412)
  26. Fumbler’s Rant (Roud 8570)
  27. Green Grow the Rashes (My Jocky blyth, for What Thou’st Done) (Roud 8701)
  28. Gaberlunzie Man (Roud 119; Child 280; G/D 2:277; Henry H810)
  29. Glancing of Her Apron (Roud 8571)
  30. Gypsie Laddie
  31. Hey Jenny Come Down to Jock (Roud 8417)
  32. Jeany, Where Hast Thou Been (Roud 8572)
  33. Jenny Dang the Weaver (Roud 2600)
  34. Jocky Fou, Jenny Fain (Roud 5515)
  35. Jenny Nettles (Roud 2581; G/D 8:1725)
  36. John Ochiltree (Roud 5655)
  37. Kirk Wad Let Me Be (I was anes a weel-tocher’d lass) (Roud 8573)
  38. Ye Blythest Lads, and Lasses Gay (Roud 8574)
  39. Low Down in the Broom (Roud 1644)
  40. Lass Wi’ a Lump of Land (Roud 8463)
  41. My Jo Janet (Roud 8462)
  42. My Daddy Forbade, My Minny Forbade (Roud 8461)
  43. The Maltman (Roud 5508)
  44. The Miller (Roud 5656; G/D 3:453)
  45. Maggy Lauder (Roud 5265)
  46. Muirland Willie (Roud 5518)
  47. Maggie’s Tocher (Roud 5657)
  48. Scornfu’ Nansy (Roud 6861)
  49. Slighted Nancy (Roud 846; G/D 7:1385)
  50. Norland Jocky (Roud 8615)
  51. O’er the Muir to Maggie (Roud 8616)
  52. O’er the Hills and Far Away (Roud 8460)
  53. The Runaway Bride (Roud 2876)
  54. The Country Wedding (Rob’s Jock came to wooe our Jennie) (Roud 8415)
  55. Rock and Wee Pickle Tow (Roud 5506; G/D 3:476)
  56. I Hae a Green Purse (Roud 8459)
  57. Come Let’s Hae Mair Wine in (Roud 8617)
  58. Spinning Wheel (Roud 4255; G/D 8:1861)
  59. Steer Her Up and Had Her Gawin (Roud 8618)
  60. Sleepy Body (Roud 8619)
  61. Sir John Malcolm (Roud 5526)
  62. There’s My Thumb I’ll Ne’er Beguile Thee (Roud 8458)
  63. Tarry Woo (Roud 1472)
  64. Take Your Auld Cloak About You (Roud 8207)
  65. Tibby Fowler of the Glen (Roud 5504; G/D 8:1691)
  66. This Is No My Ain House (Roud 3790; G/D 1:119)
  67. Todlen Hame (Roud 6493)
  68. What’s That to You? (Roud 8814)
  69. Were Na My Heart Light I Wad Die (Roud 8457)
  70. Where Will Our Goodman Ly (Roud 8620)
  71. Widow, Are Ye Waking? (Roud 5509)
  72. Wap at the Widow, My Laddie (Roud 8621)
  73. Willie Was a Wanton Wag (Roud 8546)
  74. Woo’d and Married and A’ (Roud 7159; G/D 7:1370)
  75. Wat Ye Wha I Met Yestreen (Roud 8622)
  76. Katy’s Answer (Roud 8455)
  77. We’ll A’ to Kelso Go (Roud V44359)
  78. Wayward Wife (Roud 8454)
  79. We’re Gayly Yet (Roud 8453)
  80. Up and War Them A’ Willie (Roud 8624)
  81. Up in the Air (Roud 8625)
  82. The Wife of Auchtermuchty (Roud 281; Laws Q1; Henry H702)
  83. Bannocks of Barley-Meal (Roud 5653; G/D 3:526)
  84. No Dominies for Me, Laddie (Roud 6244; G/D 4:872)
  85. Jamie Gay (Roud 8413)
  86. I’ve Been Courting (Roud 8452)
  87. My Heart’s My Ain (Roud 8451)
  88. My Wife’s Ta’en the Gee (Roud 5513)
  89. Wallifou Fa’ the Cat (There was a bonnie wi’ laddie) (Roud 8549)
  90. Here Awa’ There Awa’ (Roud 8418)
  91. Drap of Capie O (Roud 8627)
  92. Willie Winkie’s Testament (Roud 8556)
  93. The Ploughman (Roud 5582; G/D 3:451)
  94. The Tailor (Roud 7154; G/D 7:1438)
  95. The Maid Gaed tae the Mill (Roud 2575; G/D 7:1436)
  96. The Brisk Young Lad (Roud 6139; G/D 4:892)
  97. The Surprise (Roud 8450)
  98. The Mariner’s Wife (Roud 3717)
  99. The Gawkie (Roud 8416)
  100. The Shepherd’s Son (Roud 11; Child 112; G/D 2:301)
  101. Get Up and Bar the Door (Roud 115; Child 275; G/D 2:321)
  102. Had Awa Frae Me Donald (O will you hae ta tartan plaid) (Roud 6133; G/D 4:857)
  103. The Dreg Song (Roud 8628)
  104. I’ll Chear Up My Heart (Roud 8629)
  105. Robin Red-Breast (Roud 3900; G/D 3:646; Henry H527)
  106. Let Me In This Ae Nicht (Roud 135; G/D 4:778)
  107. Hallow Fair (Roud 8583)
  108. Our Goodman (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab)
  109. The Nurse’s Song (Roud 8582)
  110. Kind-Hearted Nancy (Roud 298; G/D 4:812)
  111. Bide Ye Yet (Roud 8411)
  112. Ranting, Roving Lad (Roud 709; G/D 1:124)
  113. Let Him Gang (Roud 803; Henry H504)
  114. As I Came in By Fisherraw (Roud 8702)
  115. The Shepherd’s Wife Cries O’er the Lee (Roud 1055; G/D 7:1513)
  116. Old King Coul (Roud 1164; G/D 8:1710)
  117. The Miller of Dee (Roud 503; G/D 3:452)
  118. Turnimspike (Roud 8449)
  119. Patie’s Wedding (Roud 5514; Henry H200)
  120. Dear Roger, If Your Jenny Geck (Roud 8466)
  121. The Dorty Will Repent (Roud 8578)
  122. O Dear Peggy (Roud 8579)
  123. How Shall I Be Sad (Roud 8580)
  124. Cauld Be the Rebels Cast (Roud 8581)
  125. The Laird Wha in Riches and Honour (Roud 8575)
  126. Peggy, Now the King’s Come (Roud 8576)
  127. Hid from Himself (Roud 8577)
  128. For the Love of Jean (Roud 1792; G/D 4:823)
  129. Auld Robin Gray (When the Sheep Are in the Fauld) (Roud 2652; G/D 7:1364)
  130. Watty and Madge (Roud 8554)

Fragments of Comic and Humorous Songs

  1. The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre (Roud 2137; G/D 7:1303)
  2. Bonny Dundee (O have I burnt, or have I slain) (Roud 8553)
  3. Galla Water (Roud 2578)
  4. Gae to the Ky’ Wi’ Me, Johny (Roud 8647)
  5. Brose and Butter (Roud 8552, 12585)
  6. Jenny’s Bawbie (Roud 5660)
  7. Cauld Kale in Aberdeen (Roud 8502)
  8. Cock Up Your Beaver (Roud 8257)
  9. John, Come Kiss Me now (Roud 5521)
  10. When She Came Ben She Bobbit (Roud 5519)
  11. I Wish That You Were Dead, Goodman (Roud 5884; G/D 3:695; Henry H531)
  12. Whistle O’er the Lave O’t (Roud 506; G/D 7:1414)
  13. The Grey Cock (Roud 179; Child 248)
  14. The Wren, or, Lennox’s Love to Blantyre (Roud 6942)
  15. Will Ye Go to the Wood (Roud 236)
  16. Lustie Maye (Roud 8550)
  17. When I Was a Wee Thing (Roud 8551)
  18. Wali Fu Fa’ the Cat (As I came down bonny Tweedside) (Roud 8549)
  19. Dainty Davie (O leeze me on your curly pow) (Roud 2387)
  20. Hey How Johnny Lad (Roud 7148; G/D 7:1351)
  21. Johnny Johnston (Roud 8547)
  22. How Lang Have I a Batchelor Been (Roud 8548)
  23. If Ever There Was an Ill Wife (Roud 8928)
  24. As I Gaed to the Well (Roud 8156)
  25. Lumps of Pudding (Roud 1595)
  26. Birks of Abergeldie (Bonnie lassie, will ye go) (Roud 5070; G/D 4:801)
  27. Keep the Country, Bonnie Lassie (Roud 8546)
  28. And Fare Ye Weel My Auld Wife (Roud 8545)
  29. Will Ye Go to Flanders? (Roud 8544)
  30. Tibby Fowler of the Glen (Roud 5504; G/D 8:1691)
  31. Kirk Wad Let Me Be (I am a poor silly auld man) (Roud 8539)
  32. Blink Over the Burn, Sweet Betty (Roud 8540)
  33. Green Grow the Rashes (Roud 13581)
  34. O This Is My Departing Time (Roud 8542)
  35. I Hae Layen Three Herring (Roud 6138; G/D 4:890)
  36. Up in the Morning Early (Roud 8536)
  37. Kist the Streen (Roud 8538)
  38. Look Up to Pentland’s Tow’ring Tops (Roud 8537)
  39. When I Gaed to the Mill (Roud 8535)
  40. Donald Cowper (Roud 8534)
  41. As I Walked By Myself (Roud 8533)
  42. My Wife’s a Wanton Wee Thing (Roud 5659; G/D 7:1295)
  43. Logan Water (Logan water and Logan braes) (Roud 6843; G/D 6:1122)
  44. Symon Brodie Had a Cow (Roud 8531; G/D 8:1658)
  45. Barm (Roud 8532)
  46. The Bonny Lass of Anglesey (Roud 3931; Child 220)
  47. The Dainty Doonby (Roud 864; G/D 7:1488)
  48. The Tod (Roud 8530)
  49. Reckle Mahudie (Roud 8529)
  50. The Prettiest Laird in A’ the West (Roud 8528)
  51. The Cruel Mother (And there she’s lean’d her back to a thorn) (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73)
  52. The Country Swain (Roud 8503)

Appendix

  1. The Heir of Linne (Roud 111; Child 267; G/D 2:273)
  2. Hardyknute Part II (Roud 8180)
  3. Binnorie (Roud 8; Child 10; G/D 2:213)
  4. The Death of Menteith (Roud 8526)
  5. The Braes of Yarrow (Thy braes were bonny, Yarrow stream) (Roud 5839)
  6. The Child of Elle (Roud 23; Child 7; G/D 2:220)
  7. Lord Livingston (Roud 3909; Child 262)
  8. Johnny’s Gray Breeks (Roud 7141; G/D 7:1279)
  9. Oh Spare that Dreadful Thought (Roud 8253)
  10. Rondel of Lufe (Roud 8524)
  11. Twine Weel the Plaiden (Roud 8522)
  12. Auld Robin Gray (Roud 2652; G/D 7:1364)
  13. Fair Helen (Roud 8191)
  14. Leander on the Bay (Roud 8521)
  15. Blackford Hill (Roud 8520)
  16. Mary’s Dream (Roud 713; Laws K20; Henry H54)
  17. The Lammy (Roud 326)
  18. The Maid that Tends the Goats (Roud 8518)
  19. Roy’s Wife of Aldivalloch (Roud 5137; G/D 4:748)
  20. Her Sheep Had in Clusters (Roud 1225)
  21. As O’er the Mountain’s Grassy Side (Roud 8518)
  22. The Lee Rigg (Roud 8516)
  23. John of Badenyon (Roud 2592; G/D 4:763b)
  24. ’Twas Within a Mile of Edinburgh (Roud 8515)
  25. Lewis Gordon (Roud 5777; G/D 1:133)
  26. The Wee Thing, or, Mary of Castle Carey (Roud 8200)
  27. There Dwall’d a Man in Aberdeen (Roud 8514)
  28. Tullochgorum (Roud 5658)
  29. Bonny Dundee (O whar did ye get that hauver-meal bannock) (Roud 8513)
  30. Let’s Be Jovial (Roud 8512)
  31. Green Grow the Rashes (Roud 2772; G/D 7:1297)
  32. I Loo’d Ne’er a Laddie But Ane (Roud 8510)
  33. Cauld Kale in Aberdeen (Roud 8502)
  34. The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre (Roud 2137; G/D 7:1303)
  35. I Bought My Woman and My Wife (Roud 8511)
  36. Let Meaner Beauties Use Their Art (Roud 8509)
  37. As Gentle Turtle-Dove (Roud 8508)
  38. Will You Go and Marry, Kitty? (Roud 8507)
  39. The Shepherd Adonis (Roud 1215)
  40. Sweet Nelly, My Heart’s Delight (Roud 8506)
  41. How Blest Has My Time Been (Roud 8505)
  42. Sandy O’er the Lee (Roud 8504)
  43. The Country Wedding (Come haste to the wedding) (Roud 8503)
  44. Jockey to the Fair (Roud 3344)
  45. Scant of Love, Want of Love (Roud 210)
  46. Cauld Kale in Aberdeen (Roud 8502)
  47. The Waefu’ Heart (Roud 8501)
  48. The Ewy Wi’ the Crooked Horn (Roud 2140)
  49. The Siller Crown (Roud 8500)
  50. To the Greenwood Gang Wi’ Me (Roud 8499)
  51. Johnny and Mary (Roud 8498)
  52. My Jockey Is a Bonny Lad (Roud 8684)