Note 128 — 10 THE TWA SISTERS
Reading edition
Cunningham has re-written Scott's version, Songs of Scotland, II, 109, 'The Two Fair Sisters.' He says, "I was once deeply touched with the singing of this romantic and mournful song.... I have ventured to print it in the manner I heard it sung." There is, to be sure, no reason why he should not have heard his own song sung, once, and still less why he should not have been deeply touched with his own pathos. Cunningham adds one genuine stanza, resembling the first of G, J, P:
Two fair sisters lived in a bower, Hey ho my nonnie O There came a knight to be their wooer. While the swan swims bonnie O