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 It was at Aulrain I was ta'en,

A prisoner for Lady Jean;

In fetters strong then I was ta'en,

And carried into Aberdeen.

It's not their frowns that I do mind,

Nor yet the way that I have to go,

But love has pierced my tender heart,

And alas! it's brought me very low.

I was embarked at the shore,

Never to see my darling more,

In Germany a soldier to be,

All for the lass of Banaphie.

But when I was upon the seas,

I ne'er could take one moment's ease,

For she was daily in my mind,

That bonny lass I left behind.

But when I arrived in foreign land,

From my true love a letter came,

With her respect in each degree,

Sign'd by the lass of Banaphie.

The answer which to her I sent,

It never to my true love went,