Quiller-Couch quoted the text from Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Scott had polished up the set sung by Anna Brown, which Child gives as his example A (Alexander Fraser Tytler's Brown MS., No. 3), commenting "A was printed in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, II, 73, 1802, 'chiefly' from Mrs Brown's MS.; in fact, with not quite forty petty alterations." Many of Mrs Brown's tunes were noted, but this one appears to be lost.