The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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But e'en let them be, wi' their scornin'
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There's a lassie whase name I could tell ;
Her smile is as sweet as the mornin'
But whisht ! I am ravin' mysell.
But he that o' ravin's convickit,
When a bonnie sweet lass he thinks on,
May he ne'er get anither strait jacket
Than that buckled to by Mess John
An' he wha—though cautious an' canny
The charms o' the fair never saw.
Though wise as King Solomon's grannie,
I swear is the daftest of a'.
WHEN JOHN AND ME WERE MARRIED.
TANNAHILL,
Tune—Clean pease strae.
When John and me were married,
Our hadding was but sma'.
For my minnie, canker'd carline,
Wad gie us nocht ava.
I wair't my fee wi' cannie care,
As far as it wad gae ;
But, weel I wat, our bridal bed
Was clean pease strae.
Wi' working late and early.
We're come to what you see
For fortune thrave aneath our hands,
Sae eydent aye were we.
The lowe o' love made labour light
I'm sure you'll find it sae,
When kind ye cuddle down at e'en
'Mang clean pease strae.
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