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Thread #6638   Message #125782
Posted By: Bruce O.
20-Oct-99 - 12:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Some Say the Devil's Dead /...Deil's Deid
Subject: RE: REQ: Some say the devil is dead?
It took a long before I recalled where I had seen something quite similar. Here is the version in David Herd's MS, c 1776, as given in Hans Hecht's 'Songs from David Herd's MSS'

Some say the deel's dead,
The deel's dead, the deel's dead'
Some say the deel's dead
And buried in Kirka'dy [Kirkaldy in Fifeshire]
And some say he's risen agen,
And some say he risen and run
Awa wi' the Highland ladie!

In Chamber's 'Popular Rhymes' the ending goes, "and risen again, and danced the Highland laddie".