It's up and down by the bonnie burn side, Amang the planting of Airly. I wad gie them a' to Charlie. As this night he is wi' Charlie, There durst na a Campbell in a' the west Hae plundered the bonnie house o' Airly. Lord Airly's houses were destroyed by Argyll, representing the Covenanters, and also in pursuance of a private feud, in 1639, or 1640. There are erroneous versions of this ballad, in which Lochiel appears, and the date is, apparently, transferred to 1745.
Few families have a record so consistently loyal.