ANCIENT

Ballads and Songs

OF THE

NORTH OF SCOTLAND,

HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED.

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES,

BY PETER BUCHAN,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES

OF SCOTLAND.

"The ancient spirit is not dead,—
"Old times, we trust, are living here."

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EDINBURGH:

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W. & D. LAING, AND J. STEVENSON;

A. BROWN & CO. ABERDEEN; J. WYLIE, AND ROBERTSON
AND ATKINSON, GLASGOW; D. MORISON & CO.

PERTH; AND J. DARLING, LONDON.

MDCCCXXVIII.

[Entered in Stationers hall.]

141.

ANCIENT

BALLADS AND SONGS

OF THE

NORTH OF SCOTLAND.

!

The Birth of Robin Hood.

MONY ane talks o' the grass, the grass,
And mony ane o' the corn,

And mony ane talks o' gude Robin Hood,
Kens little whar he was born.

He was gotten in a earl's ha',

And in a lady's bower;

And born into gude greenwood,, ; I
Thro' mony cauld winter's shower."

His father was the earl's own steward,
Sprung frae sma' pedigree;

His mother, Earl Huntingdon's ae daughter,
For he had nane else but she.

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