The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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I will wash my ploughman's hose,
And I will wasli his owerlay,
And I will make my ploughman's bed.
And cheer him late and early.
Merry but, and merry ben,
Merry is my ploughman
Of a' the trades that I do ken,
Commend me to the ploughman.
Plough yon hill, and plough yon dale.
Plough yon faugh and fallow
Wha winna drink the ploughman's health,
Is but a dirty fellow I *
O, AY MY WIFE SHE DANG ME.
BURNS.
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Tune— O, ay my Wife she dang me.
O, AY my wife she dang me.
And aft my wife she banged me I
If ye gie a woman a' her will,
Gude faith, she'll soon owergang ye.
On peace and rest my mind was bent,
And_, fool I was, I married
But never honest man's intent
As cursedly miscarried !
O, ay my wife, &c.
Some sair o' comfort still at last,
When a' thir days are dune, man—
* From Herd's Collection, 1776. A different version is in the Musical
Museum, Part II. ; and there is another, very much corrupted, in Cunningham's
Songs of Scotland.
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