[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...

CARRICK FOR A MAN.
represented in the ballad.
For example, a castle existed on the small
barony of Grenan, on the Carrick coast, where the ruins of one built
in 1603 still remain, which is mentioned in a grant of the Doon Fishings
to the Abbey of Melrose, by William the Lion.
Mrs Wardlaw, whose pi'eservation or composition of the ballad of
Hardyknute has given rise to this gossip about antiquity, was the
second daughter of Sir Charles Halket of Pitferran, in Fifeshire.
She was born in 1679, and mamed to Sir Henry Wardlaw of Balumlie,
or Pitrivie, in the same district, in 1696. She died about the
year 1727.
Canicfe for a JWan.
When auld Robin Bruce
Lived at Turnberry house.
He was the prince o' the people, the frien' o' the Ian'.
Then to Kyle for your cow,
Gallowa' for your woo.
But Carrick, my billies, when ye want a man.
At the stream o' auld bannocks,
There was cracking o' crummocks.
It was a hai'd tulzie, lang fought ban' to han'.
Then to Kyle for your cow,
Gallowa' for your woo,
But Carrick, my billies, that day proved the man.
Then why should we not be crouse.
When we think o' auld Robin Bruce,
Wliose blood, it still flows, and whose progeny rings
Then to Kyle for your cow,
Gallowa' for your woo,
But Carrick, my billies, gives Britain her Queens !
G 49,