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THE BRAES O YARROW—P
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Cromek's Select Scotish Songs, 1810, II, 196, the seventh and tenth stanzas; sent by Burns to William Tytler in 1790.
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‘Get up, get up now, sister Ann,I fear we've wrought you sorrow;
Get up, ye'll find your true love slain,
Among the banks of Yarrow.’
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‘I made my love a suit of clothes,I clad him all in tartan,
But ere the morning sun arose,
He was a' bluid to the gartan.’
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