Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk I Met a Man Wha Speer'd at Me 
I Met a Man Wha Speer'd at Me
 1. I met a man wha speer'd at me, Grow there berries in the sea? I answered him by speering again, Is there skate on Clochnaben?
 2. There was a hielandman axed at me, What, grows there berries into the sea? As I could answer him again, What, grows there skate upon Cloch-na-ben?
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 Chambers PRS 1847; MacLennan SNR (1909), 18; Nicht at Eenie (1932), 28.
 Paul, Past & Present of Aberdeenshire (1881), 158

 (no. 33). awak'd it forc'd her to weep;he dreaming lay, and thought her and references. Clochnaben is a hill in Aberdeenshire. This may be a floater, turning up in versions of "I Once Loved a Lass". 
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