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183A: Willie Macintosh
183A.1	 TURN, Willie Macintosh,
	 Turn, I bid you;
	 Gin ye burn Auchindown,
	 Huntly will head you.
183A.2	 Head me or hang me,
	 That canna fley me;
	 Ill burn Auchendown
	 Ere the life lea me.
183A.3	 Coming down Deeside,
	 In a clear morning,
	 Auchindown was in flame,
	 Ere the cock-crawing.
183A.4	 But coming oer Cairn Croom,
	 And looking down, man,
	 I saw Willie Macintosh
	 Burn Auchindown, man,
183A.5	 Bonny Willie Macintosh,
	 Whare left ye your men?
	 I left them in the Stapler,
	 But theyll never come hame.
183A.6	 Bonny Willie Macintosh,
	 Whare now is your men?
	 I left them in the Stapler,
	 Sleeping in their sheen.
183B: Willie Macintosh
183B.1	 AS I came in by Fiddich-side,
	 In a May morning,
	 I met Willie Mackintosh,
	 An hour before the dawning.
183B.2	 Turn again, turn again,
	 Turn again, I bid ye;
	 If ye burn Auchindown,
	 Huntly he will head ye.
183B.3	 Head me, hang me,
	 That sall never fear me;
	 Ill burn Auchindown
	 Before the life leaves me.
183B.4	 As I came in by Auchindown,
	 In a may morning,
	 Auchindown was in a bleeze,
	 An hour before the dawning.
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183B.5	 Crawing, crawing,
	 For my crowse crawing,
	 I lost the best feather i my wing
	 For my crowse crawing.
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