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XCV.— LOCHABER. 99
destroyed. In the Museum, the note E, answering to the
verb bore in the second strain of Lochaber, ought to be flat.
It had been overlooked by Mr Clark when revising the proof
sheets ; but it is easily corrected with a pen.
xcvi.
THE MUCKING OF GEORDIE'S BYRE.
This old air was formerly called " My father^'s a delver of
dykes ;" from a curious old song, preserved in the Orpheus
Caledonius in 1725, a copy of which is annexed.
t.
My daddie's a delver of dykes.
My minnie can card and spin.
And I'm a bonnie young lass.
And the siller comes linken in ;
The siller comes linken in,
And it is fu' fair to see ;
And its wow-wow-wow.
What ails the lads at me ?
II.
Whenever our bawtie does bark.
Then fiast to the door I rin.
To see gin ony young spark
Will light and venture in ;
But ne'er a ane comes in, , j
Though mony a ane gaes by ;
Syne ben the house I rin.
And a wearie wight am I.
III.
I had ane auld wife to my grannie.
And wow gin she kept me lang.
But now the carlin's dead.
And I'll do what I can.
And I'll do what I can,
Wi' my twenty pounds and my cow.
But wow, its ane unco thing.
That naebody comes to woo.
Ramsay wrote an introductory stanza to this old song, be-
ginning Ti's / have seven braw nsw gowfis ; and in place
of the last stanza, which he suppressed, he added two of his
own, beginning When I was at vit/ first prayers. The song,
thus altered, he entitled, " Slighted Nancy," to the tune of
The kirk wad let me be. The editor of the Orpheus Caledo-
nius, however, adhered to the words and tune of the old song,