![]() ![]() In Fyvie kirkyard, a gravestone inscribed with ‘Heir lyes Agnes Smith who departed the 19 Janvari 1673’. Many scholars and singers alike are of the opinion that the ballad is a true story - lending to its popularity amongst “temple stane.” Upon her deathbed, Annie asks her mother to make her bed, and lay her face turned toward Fyvie. She is then punished and beat by her mother, father and sisters. Lord Fyvie then makes his own marriage proposal which is rejectedīy Annie. Lammie to Edinburgh to “brak his tie wi’ Annie”. Annie’s father hears of her relationship and calls upon Lord Fyvie, who then sends Andrew Of Agnes Smith (Annie) who falls in love with Lord Fyvie's servant-trumpeter, thought to be Andrew Lambe, titled in ![]() Mill o’ Tifty’s Annie, set in the early 1670’s, tells the ill-fated tale Mathieson, Jane Turriff and Lucy Stwart, Bell Duncan. ✺ popular ballad amongst source singers such as Jeannie Robertson, Elizabeth Stewart, John Strachan, Willie ![]()
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