"Gay Hijackers" gets over 100 replies and my search for this ballad merits only "Syd Rumpo" comments. Thought I'd try again. I've only been at this particular ballad for about 30 years. I thought I might get something useful here from someone who takes this sort of thing seriously. The only surviving words I know of are: "It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat. The mither beneath the mools heard that..." The surviving bit is from Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights." The scholar Bronson believed it to be an invented bit by Emily, but I think it's more likely the real thing. Any serious ideas out there about this?