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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.’
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