ARCHIE O CAWFIELD—E
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Macmath MS, p. 76. “Taken down by me, September,
1886, from my aunt, Miss Jane Webster: heard by her in
her youth, at Airds.”
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‘We'll awa to bonnie Dundee,
And set our brither Archie free.’
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They broke through locks, and they broke through bars,
And they broke through everything that cam in their way,
Until they cam to a big iron gate,
And that's where brother Archie lay.
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‘O brither Archie speak to me,
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For we are come to set ye free.’
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‘Such a thing it canna be,
For there's fifty pund o gude Spanish airn
Atween my neckbane and my knee.’