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CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. 95
'Twas on a Monday morning,
Eight early in the year,
That Charlie cam to our town,
The Young Chevalier.
And Charlie is my darling,
My darling, my darling,
And Charlie is my darling,
The Young Chevalier.
As he cam walking up the street,
The pipes played loud and clear ;
And young and auld cam out to greet
The Young Chevalier.
O up yon heathery mountain,
And down yon scroggy glen,
We daurna gang a-milking,
For Charlie and his men.
This song, in a somewhat different version, was first published
in Johnson's Museum, and it is probably of not much older date.
LEWIE GORDON.
One of the most favourite songs of the Jacobites in the latter
days of the party, was Lewie Gordon, referring primarily to
that noted partisan of the cause, but mainly a longing reminis-
cence of the prince himself, as he had appeared in Highland
guise throughout his romantic expedition. Lord Lewis, a
younger son of the second Duke of Gordon, raised two battalions
for the prince, and gained some reputation by routing a large
party of loyal volunteers under Macleod of Macleod at Inverury,
December 23, 1745. After Culloden, he escaped to France,