This is the transcription of Duncan's words which I included in the book 'Traveller's Joy' (EFDSS 2006). You can find the tune there, as well.

BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL

High in the Highlands, oh, laich by the Tay;
Bonny George Campbell went riding one day,
He saddled and he bridled, so gallant and so free,
But hame came his good horse but never came he.

Out comes his mother, a-tearing her hair.
Then out comes his young wife so lovely and fair.
Oh the valleys they lie so green and the corn lies unshorn,
But for bonny George Campbell, he will never return.

For a band of MacDonalds he met on his way.
For they took him and they hung him,
And they strung him to a tree.
So hame came his good horse but never came he.

Now the valleys they lie so green and the corn lies unshorn,
But for bonny George Campbell, he will never return.


I included the following sentence among the book's notes: 'None of Child's four versions makes mention of the MacDonalds...and it seems impossible to tell whether or not this is an original stanza to the ballad or one added at a later time, possibly following the well-known massacre at Glencoe.'