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THE HILLS OF GALLOWAY.
In twa three mae the gowans grew
Aboon his new made grave
An' wails for him the music sweet
O' Girvan's murmuring wave. .
Baith auld an' frail his mither wags
About the Burchill braes,
An' thinks upon Drumfairn Ann
As the source o' a' her waes.
The lark ye may wile frae the sky,
When sweet's the morning air
But never frae the heart the grief
That's fixt there by despair.
The ballad of " Tam o' the Down" appeared, with the initials " J. B."
attached, in the Dumfries Monthly Magazine for 1826. The places
; referred to—^both Down and Drumfairn—are in the immediate neighbourhood
of Girvan. The fate of the too fond lover is probably no
fiction ; but we are not aware of the circumstances.
mt l^ills of ^allotoag.
Farewell, ye Hills of Galloway,
Where I've been wont to stray
Farewell, ye Hills of Galloway,
My home of childhood's day
A distant land now claims me,
But thither though I roam,
My throbbing heart will beat with joy,
For thee, my hilly home !
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