I Wish, I Wish- A. Barron (Aber) 1906 Greig F
[Single stanza with tune from: The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection - Volume 8 - page 259; by Patrick N. Shuldham-Shaw, Emily B. Lyle - 2002. Greig's eldest child Edith married Arthur Barron, who was one of Greig's most prolific informants, providing eighty-six songs in Volumes 1-7.
R. Matteson 2017]
F . I Wish, I Wish- Sung by Arthur Barron, Mains of Whitehill, New Deer, 1906. Collected by Gavin Grieg, c. 1906.
1. I wish, I wish but I wish in vain,
I wish I were but a maid again,
But a maid again I shall never be
Till an apple grows on an orange tree.