Binnorie- Mrs. Lindores (Rox) Kinloch's MS; Child K
[Fragment from Mr. Kinloch's papers by Mr. Macmath, and inserted by him as a note on p. 59, vol. II, of Kinloch's manuscripts. Uses the standard Binnorie refrain.
R. Matteson 2014, 2018]
According to Child this fragment was: Found among Mr. Kinloch's papers by Mr. Macmath, and inserted by him as a note on p. 59, vol. II, of Kinloch's manuscripts. The order of the stanzas is there, wrongly, inverted.
BINNORIE- From Mrs. Lindores of Kelso Roxburghshire, c.1926
1 'O sister, sister, gie me your hand,
Binnorie and Binnorie
And *I'll give the half of my fallow-land,
By the bonnie mill-dams of Binnorie.'
* * * * *
2 The first time the bonnie fiddle played,
Binnorie and Binnorie
'Hang my sister, Alison,' it said,
'At the bonnie mill-dams of Binnorie.'
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Footnote: *var. I wad give you.