with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns
with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns
2 Get up, goodman, it is fou time, The sun shines in the lift sae hie Sloth never made a gracious end, Go tak your auld cloak about ye. My cloak was anes a good grey cloak, When it was fitting for my wear But now it's scantly worth a groat, For I have worn't this thirty year Let's spend the gear that we have won. We little ken the day we'll die Then I'll be proud, since I have sworn To have a new cloak about me. In days when our king Robert rang, His trews they cost but haff a crown He said they were a groat o'er dear, And call'd the taylor thief and loun. He was the king that wore a crown. And thou the man of laigh degree, 'Tis pride puts a' the country down, Sae tak thy auld cloak about thee. Every land has its ain laugh. Ilk kind of corn it has its hool, I think the warld is a' run wrang. When ilka wife her man wad rule
Do ye not see Rob, Jock, and Hab^ As they are girded gallantly, While I sit hurklen in the ase I'll have a new cloak about me, Goodman, I wate 'tis thirty years, Since we did ane anither ken And we have had between us twa, Of lads and bonny lasses ten Now they are women grown and men^ I wish and pray well may they be And if you prove a good husband, E'en tak your auld cloak about ye. Bell my wife, she loves na strife But she w ad guide me, if she can, And to maintain an easy life, I aft maun yield, tho' I'm goodman Nought's to be won at woman's hand. Unless ye give her a' the plea Then I'll leave aff where I began. And tak my auld cloak about me. B 2
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Do ye not see Rob, Jock, <strong>and</strong> Hab^<br />
As they are girded gallantly,<br />
While I sit hurklen in the ase<br />
I'll have a new cloak about me,<br />
Goodman, I wate 'tis thirty years,<br />
Since we did ane anither ken<br />
And we have had between us twa,<br />
Of lads <strong>and</strong> bonny lasses ten<br />
Now they are women grown <strong>and</strong> men^<br />
I wish <strong>and</strong> pray well may they be<br />
And if you prove a good husb<strong>and</strong>,<br />
E'en tak your auld cloak about ye.<br />
Bell my wife, she loves na strife<br />
But she w ad guide me, if she can,<br />
And to maintain an easy life,<br />
I aft maun yield, tho' I'm goodman<br />
Nought's to be won at woman's h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Unless ye give her a' the plea<br />
Then I'll leave aff where I began.<br />
And tak my auld cloak about me.<br />
B 2
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