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* A version of this air occurs in the Skene MS., circa 1615-1620, but it is v
'wrote the verses In 17S9 for Johnstone's S'cois' Musical Museum^ where it appears in
Ancient English roetry, vol. i., some stanzas of the old song are given. Tradition s;
ery probable that it belongs to a much older date. Burns
the third volume, song Js.o. 260. In Percy's Reliquesof
;iys that Jolm Anderson was town-piper of Kelso.