CLXIX.
Reading edition
BANNOCKS O’ BARLEY.
Tune—“The Killogie.”
[“This song is in the Museum,” says Sir Harris Nicolas, “but without Burns’s name.” Burns took up an old song, and letting some of the old words stand, infused a Jacobite spirit into it, wrote it out, and sent it to the Museum.]
I.
Bannocks o’ bear meal, Bannocks o’ barley; Here’s to the Highlandman’s Bannocks o’ barley. Wha in a brulzie Will first cry a parley? Never the lads wi’ The bannocks o’ barley.
II.
Bannocks o’ bear meal, Bannocks o’ barley; Here’s to the lads wi’ The bannocks o’ barley. Wha in his wae-days Were loyal to Charlie? Wha but the lads wi’ The bannocks o’ barley?