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THE WEE, WEE GERMAN LAIRDIE.
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Lairdie, and couched, it must be admitted, in vigorous poetical
language, appeared in Cromek's Beliques of Nithsdale and
Galloway Song, 1810, with a note stating that it was one version
out of several which the editor had heard sung. This was trans-
ferred, with some verbal alterations, to Hogg's Jacobite Relics,
with an additional verse at the end, part of which the editor
said was from an older collection. Cromek — the victim of
the singular impostures of Allan Cunningham — and James
Hogg, are but fallacious authorities to rest upon. No matter.
The song has obtained a deserved popularity, and may be here
repeated, along with the air supplied by Hogg.
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