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ANNIE LAURIE.*
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Gi'ed me her pro - mise true ;
That e'er the sun shone on ;
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* The older version of this song has been attributed to a Mr. Douglas, of Fingland, who seems to hare lived about the end of the
17th century. The heroine of the song was Annie, daugliter of Sir Kobert Laurie, first baronet of Maxwellton— so created in 1685. Allan
Cunningham is said to have found the verses in the little Ballad Book collected by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp, of Hoddani; see note upon
*** Annie Laurie" in Cunningham's Songs of Scotland, Kdinburgh, 1825, vol. iii. Regarding the verses and cliarming meledy which we give.
Lady John Scott has kindly informed us "that the tune of "Annie Laurie" is her composition, and that she altered Wie second verse and
entirely composed the third verse of the song. Lady John Scott also states that Allan Cunningham wrote the original verses.