X:1 T:Frenet Ha' Z:Jack Campin <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> C:Bauldie Scrimezour S:John Hamilton, 24 Songs, 1796 M:3/4 L:1/8 Q:1/4=60 "Slow & Moving" K:GMin (D^F)|G2 G2 A c| d4 (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G c|({B}A4) (G^F)|G2 (GA) B> c| d4 (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G ^F| G4|| (d>f)|g2 g2 a> g|(f>d) d2 (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G> c|({B}A4) (G^F)|G2 (GA) B> c| d2 d2 (d/=e/f)|(dc) (BA) G ^F| G4|] Quhair wile I lay my hede, Quhair lay my bodie doune, Qhairfor na am I died, Sen' wandrin' I bene bown; O! Marie ze war fairer than ony goud or gear; O! bot my hert is sairer than't has bene mony zeir. O! blythsom was the wi time, That I hae spent wi thee, Aft kiss't that cheik o' thyne, As ze sat on my knee. But cauld's thy bodie now Marie, O! dull thy blinkin' E'e, Quhairfor do I here tarry, An' canna win to thee. He sat doune on a stane, His hame was far awa; He sicht an' made a mane, An sicht O! Frenet Ha'. Syne drew his schairp Sword frae its shethe, It gleitert wi' the Sun, An ay he cry'd dear Mary, My Love to thee I come. (2 more verses added by editor). Note, the bit Scrimezour wrote or collected ends halfway through the third verse. The rest is nowhere near as good. The tune was printed as "John Knox" by Nathaniel Gow, in F minor. Hamilton's collection is also the source for the earliest text of "Braes of Balquhidder"/"Wild Mountain Thyme" - i.e. well before Tannahill's version and 150 years before the McPeakes (and the song is at least 50 years older, though only the tune was printed back then). Bruce Olson posted my transcription of it to Mudcat.