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Rattlin roarin Willie
Was sitting at yon boord-en ;
Sitting at yon boord-en'.
And amang gude companie ;
Rattlin, roarin Willie,
Ye're welcome hame to me.*
DUSTY MILLER.
Tune—.r/je Dusty Miller.
Hey, the dusty miller.
And his dusty coat
He will win a shilling,
Ere he spend a groat.
Dusty was the coat,
Dusty was the colour
Dusty was the kiss,
That I gat frae the miller !
Hey, the dusty miller,
And his dusty sack
Leeze me on the calling
Fills the dusty peck ;
Fills the dusty peck.
Brings the dusty siller :
I wad gie my coatie
For the dusty miller.f
* From Johnson's Musical Museum, Part II. 1788. This song was recovered
by Burns, who added the last verse in comphrnent to William Dunbar,
Esq. W. S. Edinburgh, Colonel of what was called the Crochallan
corps, a club of wits, which took its rise at the time of the raising of the
fencible regiments for the French Revolutionary War, and of which the
poet was a member. It is worthy of remark, that there is a modern song
in the Tea-Table Miscellany, to the tune of •' Rantin roarin Willie."
t From Johnson's Musical Museum, Part II. 1788. This is one of the
few old Scottish songs, of which it can be said that the sentiment is in
every respect irreproachable.