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Rh But when her parents came to know That I did love their daughter so, They Judaslie betrayed me, For keeping o’ her companie.

’Twas at Auldrain that I was taen A prisoner for lady Jean; In fetters strong then I was bound, And carried on to Aberdeen.

’Twas not their frown that I did own, Nor yet the way I had to go; But love had pierced my tender heart, And alas! it brought me very low,

I was embarked at the shore, Never to see my darling more, In Germanic a soldier to be, All for the lass o’ Bennachie.

When I was sailing on the seas, I could not find one moment’s ease, For she was daily on my mind, The bonnie lass I left behind.

When I arrived in foreign lands, A letter from my true love came, With her respects in each degree, Signed by the lass o’ Bennachie