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Gowd for ye, bonnie lassie,
Gowd for ye, gowd for ye
Keep the country, bonnie lassie
Lads will a gie gowd for ye.*
HAP AND HOW THE FEETIE O'T.
WILLIAM CREECH, f
Tune—Hap and row thefeetie ©'/.
We'll hap and row, we'll liap and row,
We'll hap and row the feetie o't.
It is a wee bit weary thing
I down a bide the greetie o't.
And we pat on the wee bit pan.
To boil the lick o' meatie o't
A cinder fell and spoil'd the plan,
And burnt a' the feetie o't,
Fu' sair it grat, the puir wee brat,
And aye it kicked the feetie o't,
Till, puir wee elf, it tired itself;
And then began the sleepie o't.
The skirling brat nae parritch gat,
When it gaed to the sleepie o't
It's waesome true, instead o' t's mou',
They're round about the feetie o't.
* From Herd's Collection, 1776,
t A gentleman long at the head of the bookselling trade in Edinburgh,
and who had been Lord Provost of the city. A volume of his miscellaneous
prose essays has been pubUshed, tmder the title of " Edinburgh Fugitive
Pieces," He was not only remarkable for his literary accomphshments,
but also for his conversational powers, which were such as to opea
to him the society of the highest literary men of his day.