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(Bin 3 bab a wee bouse.
BYDE YE YET.*
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* This song was first printed in Herd's Jntient and Modern Scottish ^mgs, vol. ii., 17T6. Its author 1.'? unknown. A clever parody on
*' Byde ye yet " was written by Miss Jenny Graham of Dumfries (b. 1724), beginning, " Alas ! my son, you little know the sorrows that from
wedlock flow." It was published by Herd under the title of " The Wayward Wife. The air is of Highland origin.