festive gatherings, not only in the gallant old border town itself. In the past it was sung in the remotest districts of Canada, the United States and Australia, wherever Hawick men ("Teris"), and natives of the Scottish Border congregated to keep up the remembrance of their native land, and haunts of their boyhood. The full version of the Border ballad written by James Hogg in 1819 (not James Hogg, "The Ettrick Shepherd", with the same name), which replaced an earlier one by Arthur Balbirnie used a generation earlier, is still sung at the Hawick Common Riding in June of every year. The ballad begins as follows; "Teribus ye teri odin Sons of heroes slain at Flodden Imitating Border bowmen Aye defend your rights and common" See also Flowers of the Forest References Sources MacKay, Charles – A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch (1888) Moffat, Alistair – Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999) A Hawick Wordbook - Douglas Scott Hawick Scottish folklore Scottish words and phrases Mottos