Does Hogg name the tune?

The "Streets of Laredo" tune was generally known as "Banks of the Devon" at that time. But there was also "The Braes of Lochiel", or "Braighe Lochiall", which is like this in Simon Fraser's 1816 collection:

  X:1
  T:Braighe Lochiall
  T:The Braes of Lochiel
  S:Simon Fraser
  B:Airs and Melodies of the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles, 1816
  N:sharps on the Gs are marked in parens
  M:3/4
  L:1/8
  Q:1/4=100 "Very Slow and Soft"
  K:AMin
  A2 |:  E4   ^G2 |A4     c>d|({c}e4)   c2|        d2 e2 g2 |
     ({f}e4)   G2 |A4     c2 |    A4    c2|[1 ({Bc}d4)   cB:|\
                                           [2 ({Bc}d4)   c2 |B2 e2||
   B>c|  G E3 ^G2 |A4    (ce)|    a3 e  g2|        d4    f2 |
  [1 ({f}e4)   d>c|B2 e2  A2 |    G E3 ^G2|        A4      :|
  [2     e4    d>c|c2 e2 Ha2 |    B e3 ^G2|    ({B}A4)     |]

Fraser's note goes:


No. 44 reports the intention of an individual, seemingly long absent, to return to the braes of Lochiel, where he could enjoy the pleasures of the chase in perfection. The circumstances of the times banished so many from their native country, that it is difficult to trace the allusion.

That might just about fit something related to that text, at a stretch. The modern song of the same name is almost unrelated in both tune and text - it's in Anne Lorne Gillies's Songs of Gaelic Scotland.

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