Hello,I'm in the process - actually almost finished - of making a harp/vocal arrangement of "Bessie Logan." And I've read something that makes me want to check it out amang the experts here.

Using (most) of the Dougie McLean lyrics, I have the third line of the last verse as, "for noo I lie with this ain, until the day I die"
...and since I took "ain" to mean "something unchangeable about a situation," some cosmically unchangeable condition, what I took the line to mean is - and I'll need some latitude here:
"For now I live with this (unchangable condition; his love for a woman for whom he is ridiculously too old) until the day I die."
Right? It's pretty sad, but one of the reasons I want to perform the song is my belief that it happens a lot more often than anyone ever talks about - why would they?
But I've just come across a post that says that what the line means is, essentially, "but I'm married to this awful woman forever and so there's no hope."
And, well, I like my version a lot better. So,
am I right?
Cheers,
Darren