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

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o'ee the moor amang the heather.
ploits.
A battle is understood to have been fought here with the Romans
and here Wallace and Bruce were victorious over the English in two separate
exploits.
©'ft tf)e Mou amattfl tfje ^eati)er.
Comin' thro' the Craigs o' Kyle,*
Amang the bonnie blooming heather,
There I met a bonnie lassie
Keeping a' her yowes thegether.
O'er the moor amang the heather.
O'er the moor amang the heather,
There I met a bonnie lassie
Keeping a' her yowes thegether.
Says I, my dear, where is thy hame,
In moor or dale, pray tell me whether
She says, I tent the fleecy flocks,
That feed amang the blooming heather.
O'er the moor, &c.
We laid us down upon a bank,
Sae warm and sunny was the weather
She left her flocks at large to rove,
Amang the bonnie blooming heather.
O'er the moor, &c.
While thus we lay she sang a sang.
Till echo rang a mile and farther
* The Craigs o' Kyle are a range of small lulls about a mile soutli of the village of
Coilton, in the parish of that name.
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