The Scottish songs - National Library of Scotland

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To keep the temper-pin in tiff
Employs richt aft my hand, sir.
Mak' the best o't that ye can,
Janet, Janet
But like it never wale a man,
My jo Janet.*
ROY'S WIFE OF ALDIVALLOCH.
MRS GRANT OF CARRON.
Tune— T/ig Ruffian's Rant.
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch,
Roy's wife of Aldivalloch,
Wat ye how she cheated me,
As I came o'er the braes of Balloch ?
She vow'd, she swore, she wad be mine
She said she lo'ed me best of onie
But, ah I
the fickle, faithless quean.
She's ta'en the carle, and left her Johnie.
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Oh, she was a canty quean.
And weel could dance the Hieland walloch I
How happy I, had she been mine.
Or I been Roy of Aldivalloch I
Her hair sae fair, her een sae clear,
Her wee bit mou' sae sweet and bonnie I
To me she ever will be dear,
Though she's for ever left her Johnie.
* From the Tea-Table Miscellany (1724), where it is printed without
any mark.
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