Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
The unfortunate maiden's name, according to Buchan, (_Gleanings_, p.
197,) "was Annie, or Agnes, (which are synonymous in some parts of
Scotland,) Smith, who died of a broken heart on the 9th of January,
1631, as is to be found on a roughly cut stone, broken in many
pieces, in the green churchyard of Fyvie." "What afterwards became
of Bonny Andrew Lammie," says Jamieson, "we have not been able to
learn; but the current tradition of the 'Lawland leas of Fyvie',
says, that some years subsequent to the melancholy fate of poor
Tifty's Nanny, her sad story being mentioned, and the ballad sung in
a company in Edinburgh when he was present, he remained silent and
motionless, till he was discovered by a groan suddenly bursting from
him, and _several of the buttons flying from his waistcoat_."
At Mill o' Tifty liv'd a man,
In the neighbourhood of Fyvie;
He had a lovely daughter fair,
Was called bonny Annie.
Her bloom was like the springing flower 5
That salutes the rosy morning;
With innocence and graceful mien
Her beauteous form adorning.
Lord Fyvie had a trumpeter
Whose name was Andrew Lammie; 10
He had the art to gain the heart
Of Mill o' Tiftie's Annie.
Proper he was, both young and gay,
His like was not in Fyvie;
No one was there that could compare 15
With this same Andrew Lammie.
Lord Fyvie he rode by the door,
Where lived Tiftie's Annie;
His trumpeter rode him before,
Even this same Andrew Lammie. 20
Her mother call'd her to the door:
"Come here to me, my Annie;
Did you ever see a prettier man
Than this Trumpeter of Fyvie?"
She sighed sore, but said no more, 25
Alas, for bonny Annie!
She durst not own her heart was won
By the Trumpeter of Fyvie.
At night when they went to their beds,
All slept full sound but Annie; 30
Love so opprest her tender breast,
Thinking on Andrew Lammie.
"Love comes in at my bed side,
And love lies down beyond me;
Love has possess'd my tender breast, 35
And love will waste my body.
"The first time I and my love met
Was in the woods of Fyvie;
His lovely form and speech so sweet
Soon gain'd the heart of Annie. 40
"He called me mistress; I said, No,
I'm Tiftie's bonny Annie;
With apples sweet he did me treat,
And kisses soft and many.
"It's up and down in Tiftie's den, 45
Where the burn runs clear and bonny,
I've often gone to meet my love,
My bonny Andrew Lammie."
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