1 Saddled and briddled and booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he. 2 Down cam his auld mither, greetin fu sair, And down cam his bonny wife, wringin her hair. 3 Saddled and briddled and booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he. * * * * * C Smith’s Scotish Minstrel, V, 42. 1 Hie upon Hielands, and laigh upon Tay, Bonnie George Campbell rode out on a day. 2 He saddled, he bridled, and gallant rode he, And hame cam his guid horse, but never cam he. 3 Out cam his mother dear, greeting fu sair, And out cam his bonnie bryde, riving her hair. 4 ‘The meadow lies green, the corn is unshorn, But bonnie George Campbell will never return.’ 5 Saddled and bridled and booted rode he, A plume in his helmet, a sword at his knee. 6 But toom cam his saddle, all bloody to see, Oh, hame cam his guid horse, but never cam he! * * * * * D Cunningham’s Songs of Scotland, III, 2, communicated by Mr Yellowlees. 1 High upon Highlands, and low upon Tay, Bonnie George Campbell rode out on a day. 2 ‘My meadow lies green, and my corn is unshorn, My barn is to build, and my babe is unborn. * * * * * _#A# is written, and #C# printed, in stanzas of four long lines._ #A.# 1^1. _Sharpe_, 143, O _wanting_. 1^2. _Scottish Songs and Sharpe_, and _wanting_. 2^2. _Scottish Songs_, and gallant, _as in_ #C#. 2^4. _Sharpe_, but hame cam na he. 4^4. _Scottish Songs_, meadows grow green. 211 BEWICK AND GRAHAM #a.# ‘The Song of Bewick and Grahame,’ a stall-copy, in octavo, British Museum, 11621. e. 1. (4.) #b.# ‘A Remarkable and Memorable Song of Sir Robert Bewick and the Laird Graham,’ broadside, Roxburghe Ballads, III, 624. #c.# ‘A Remarkable and Memorable Song of Sir Robert Bewick and the Laird Graham,’ broadside, Percy papers. #d.# ‘Bewick and Graham’s Garland,’ M. Angus and Son, Newcastle, Bell Ballads, Abbotsford Library, P. 5, vol. i, No 60. #e.# Broadside, in “A Jolly Book of Garlands collected by John Bell in Newcastle,” No 29, Abbotsford Library, E. 1. #f.# ‘Bewick and Graham,’ chapbook, Newcastle, W. Fordyce. #g.# “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 145, Abbotsford. #h.# ‘Chirstie Græme,’ the same, No 89.