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Guess ye how the jade! I could bear her, could bear her,
Guess ye how the jade! I could bear her,
Sae a' the neist week as I fretted wi' care,
I gaed to the tryst o' Dalgarnock
And wha but ray braw fickle wooer was there,
I glowr'd as I d seen a warlock, a warlock,
I giowr'd as I'd seen a warlock.
But owre my left shouther I gied him a blink,
Lest neighbours might say I was saucy;
My wooer he capered as he'd been in drink;
And vowed I was his dear lassie dear lassie.
And vowed I was his dear lassie.
I spier'd for my cousin fu' couthie and sweet,
Gin she had recovered her hearin,
And how my auld shoon fitted her shackeled feet,
But heavens, how he fell a swearin, a swearin
But heavens, how he fell a swearin
He begged, fer Gudesake! I wad be his wife,
Or else I wad kill him wi' sorrow;
So e'en to preserve the poor body in lif
I think I maun wed him to-morrow, to-morrow,
I think I maun wed him to-morrow.
