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Archie Fisher recorded in 1976 on The Man With a Rhyme, where he writes “The Greig manuscript gave us one of the few songs where the woman comes off the better. In this case, she escapes a fixed marriage with a rich sea Captain, apparently taking his ship as well as his gold.”
Archie Fisher: Mount and Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcsZH4EA2jU
My parents married me ower young To an auld carle baith bald and dumb. His love was done and mine new sprung, So I’ll fly the plains wi’ my laddie O. Chorus: Come, bonnie laddie, mount and go, Hey, bonnie laddie, mount and go, Come, bonnie laddie, mount and go, Mount and I’ll gang wi’ ye O. But I would leave my good peat stack, And so would I my good kailyard, So would I my auld bald laird To fly the plains wi’ my laddie O. And when the auld carte lay fast asleep, Out of his arms she did quickly creep, And the keys o’ the cabin she did keep, And she’s flown the plains wi’ her laddie O. The auld carte wakened in the ha’; The sheets were cold and she was awa’. Wi’ the weight o’ herself in goud and a’ She’s flown the plains wi’ her laddie O. “It’s ye’ll gang doon tae yon seashore, And ye’ll see a ship where she was afore; Ye’ll speir at the skipper if she’s been there, Or if any of his sailors saw her O.” And as she sailed out ower yon lea, She drank a toast right merrily. She’s thrown the wine glass intae the sea, For joy she has found wi’ her /addie O. When she landed ower yon lea, She was lady o’ fifty ploughs and three, Lady o’ fifty ploughs and three And she dearly lo’es her laddie O.