<Dl> <Dd> It's a historic ballard based supposedly on the Battle of Otterburn collected by Walter Scott in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802) it is usually rendered as: </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> It's a historic ballard based supposedly on the Battle of Otterburn collected by Walter Scott in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802) it is usually rendered as: </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> But I hae dream'd a deary dream, </Dd> <Dd> Beyond the Isle of Sky; </Dd> <Dd> I saw a dead man win a fight, </Dd> <Dd> And I think that man was I .' or </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> But I hae dream'd a deary dream, </Dd>

I saw a dead man win the fight