Before following the "seven ships" which sailed to the US and appear in the Pearl Songster and the Forget-Me-Not Songster (c. 1844), I'd like to get some opinions about the Scotch version- Child A.

Is it traditional? What traditional versions are based on it? Was it composed, in fact by James Oswald. Does anyone have Oswald's version which was published in 1740 the same year as Ramsay's?
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Also- where did Percy get his changes for his English version of 1765 in Reliques?

TY

Richie