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GEORDIE—K

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Motherwell's MS., p. 370, as sung by Agnes Lyle's father.

1

I have eleven babes into the north,
And the twelfth is in my body, O
And the youngest o them's in the nurse's arms,
He neer yet saw his daddy.’ O

2

Some gied her ducks, some gied her drakes,
And some gied her crowns monie,
And she's paid him down five thousand pound,
And she's gotten hame her Geordie.