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WILLIE MACINTOSH
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Burning of Auchindown
WILLIE MACINTOSH—A
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a. The Thistle of Scotland, p. 106, 1823. b. Whitelaw, The Book of Scottish Ballads, p. 248; from an Aberdeen newspaper of about 1815.
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‘Turn, Willie Macintosh,Turn, I bid you;
Gin ye burn Auchindown,
Huntly will head you.’
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‘Head me or hang me,That canna fley me;
I'll burn Auchendown
Ere the life lea me.’
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Coming down Deeside,In a clear morning,
Auchindown was in flame,
Ere the cock-crawing.
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But coming oer Cairn Croom,And looking down, man,
I saw Willie Macintosh
Burn Auchindown, man.
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‘Bonny Willie Macintosh,Whare left ye your men?’
‘I left them in the Stapler,
But they'll never come hame.’
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‘Bonny Willie Macintosh,Whare now is your men?’
‘I left them in the Stapler,
Sleeping in their sheen.’
Willie Mackintosh
WILLIE MACINTOSH—B
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Finlay's Scottish Ballads, II, 89, 1808, as recollected by a lady and communicated by Walter Scott.
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As I came in by Fiddich-side,In a May morning,
I met Willie Mackintosh,
An hour before the dawning.
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‘Turn again, turn again,Turn again, I bid ye;
If ye burn Auchindown,
Huntly he will head ye.’
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‘Head me, hang me,That sall never fear me;
I'll burn Auchindown
Before the life leaves me.’
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As I came in by Auchindown,In a May morning,
Auchindown was in a bleeze,
An hour before the dawning.
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Crawing, crawing,For my crowse crawing,
I lost the best feather i my wing
For my crowse crawing.
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