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JOCK O THE SIDE—D
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Percy Papers. “These are scraps of the old song repeated to me by Mr Leadbeater, from the neighborhood of Hexham, 1774.”
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Liddisdaill has ridden a raid,But they had better ha staid at hame;
For Michael a Wingfield he is slain,
And Jock o the Side they hae taen.
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Dinah's down the water gane,Wi a' her coats untill her knes,
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To Mangerton came she.
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[OMITTED]How now? how now? What's your will wi me?
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To the New Castle h[e] is gane.5
They have cuttin their yad's tailes,They've cut them a little abune the hough,
And they nevir gave oer s[OMITTED]d running
Till they came to Hathery Haugh.
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And when they came to Chollerton fordTyne was mair running like a sea.
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And when they came to Swinburne wood,Quickly they ha fellen a tree;
Twenty snags on either side,
And on the top it had lang three.
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‘My mare is young, she wul na swim,’[OMITTED]
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[OMITTED]‘Now Mudge the Miller, fie on thee!
Tak thou mine, and I'll tak thine,
And the deel hang down thy yad and thee.’
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