The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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JACKY LATIN.
[never before published.]
Hey my Jack, howe my Jack,
Hey my Jacky Latin !
Because he couldna get a kiss,
His heart was at the breakin'.
A lad there cam to Peebles tomi,
They ca'd him Jacky Latin ;
Pearlin bands upon his hands,
And, oh I but he was handsome.
He's come vapourin' up the toun ;
He's come wi' sic an air !
And he's gane into a barber's shop,
For the dressin' o' his hair.
Up the gate, and doun the gate.
And in the gaun hame,
A bonnie lass gied him the slicht,
And gar'd him gang his lane.
As he gaed doun by Fernie-haugh,
And in by Scott's Mill,
There he saw the bonnie lass
Upon Cardrona Hill.
He had a merry wanton ee.
But and a wylie look ;
He thocht to tak the lassie's heart
Out frae her very bouk.
The version here given is composed of that which Mr Herd published, and
another which appeared in the later work of Mr Robert Jamieson, Popular
Ballads and Songs, 1806 ; the best lines and stanzas being adopted from
each.