The English and Scottish Popular Ballads Edited by Francis James Child. |
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Earl of Aboyne
THE EARL OF ABOYNE—E
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‘My maidens fair, yoursels prepare.’2
You may weel knaw by her hair, wi the diamonds sae rare,That the Earl of Aboyne was comin.
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‘My minstrels all, be at my call,Haud a' your rooms a ringin,
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For the Earl of Aboyne is comin.’
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‘Tomorrow soud hae been my bonnie waddinday,If I had staid in London.’
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She turned her aboot wi an angry look,An sic an angry woman!
‘Gin tomorrow soud hae been your bonnie waddin-day,
Gae back to your miss in Lunnon.’
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For mony a day an year that lady lived in care,An doctors wi her dealin,
Till just in a crack her very heart did brak,
An her letters went on to Lunnon.
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There waur four-an-twenty o the noblest lordsThat Lonnon could aford him,
A' clead in black frae the saidle to the hat,
To convey the corpse o Peggy Ewan.
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‘I'd rather hae lost a' the lands o AboyneThan lost my pretty Peggy Ewan.’
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