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Gae to the midden, and milk tlie soo ;
For I winna want my gruel ! *
TIBBIE FOWLER.t
Tvi^-E— Tibbie Fowlei,
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Tibbie Fowler o' the Glen,
There's ower mony wooing at her
Tibbie Fowler o' the Glen,
There's ower mony wooing at her.
Wooin' at her, pu'in' at her,
Corn-tin' her, and canna get her ;
Filthy elf, it's for her pelf
That a' the lads are \vooin' at her.
Ten cam east, and ten cam west
Ten cam rowin' ower the water
Twa cam down the lang dyke-side :
There's twa-and-thirty wooin' at her.
There's seven but, and seven ben,
Seven in the pantry wi' her
Twenty head about the door :
There's ane-and-forty wooin' at her !
She's got pendles in her lugs ;
Cockle-shells wad set her better I
High-heel'd shoon, and siller tags ;
And a' the lads are wooin' at her.
* This curious old folly is from the Ballad-Book, 1824.
t Said to have been written by the Rev. Dr Strachan, late minister of
Carnwath, although certainly grounded upon a song of older standing, the
name of which is mentioned in the Tea-Table Miscellany. The two first
verses of the song appeared in Herd's Collection, 1776.
There is a tradition at Leith that Tibbie Fowler was a real person, and
married, some time during the seventeenth century, to the representative of
the attainted family of Logan of Restalrig, whose town-house, dated 1656,
is still pointed out at the head of a street in Leith, called the Sherift'-brae.
The marriage-contract between Logan and Isabella Fowler is still extant,
in the possession of a gentleman resident at Leith,—See Campbell's Historp
of Leith, note, p. 311.
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