The Royal Princess/The Cowgate Garland

by Anonymous

THE

COWGATE GARLAND,

OR THE DRINKING O'T.

My wife and me, we did agree,
When married I was thinking o'tː
Her daughter Kate the angred me,
Then I began to the drinking o't,
O weary fa' the drinking o't
O weary fa' the drinking o't
An ye begin as I did then,
Your purſe will loſs the Clinking o't:

My neighbour Tom and I began,
And we gade, o'er the thinking o't,
But, in the morn by Nine o'Clock,
My noſe it pay'd by the drinking o't,
O weary fa' &c.

Tom and I, did fight and try,
Then we ſat at the thinking o't,
I pay'd him well both back and ſide,
My noſe it pay'd with drinking o't,
O weary fa' &c.

Tom's wife and mine they did meet
They both did fight on thinking o't (fyne
But Kate came in and.pay'd Tom's wife
This fight began with the drinking o't,
O weary fa' &c.

Our Neighbours all both great & ſmall
When they got word of the clinking o't
Foul fa' the fkin that was we'll pay'd,
For they got that, at the drinking o't,
O weary fa' &c.

Now Tom and me ſat down again,
And did agree for the clinking o't
We ſat two days, and three hours inore
And noded at the drinking o't

O foul fa' the drinking o't
O foul fa' the drinking o't
An ye begin as we did then
Your purſe will loſs the clinking o't

We're a dry at the drinking o't,
We're a dry at the drinking o't
Our pouch was to'om or we had done,
And this began the thinking o't,
We're a dry at the &c.

Kate ſhe cry'd, her mother, wry'd,
When we began the fighting o't,
They took a drink, and got a clink,
But I pay'd well for the drinking o't
We're a dry at the &c.

From Cowgate port to porter Johns'
We tippled hard not thinking o't
We all went home, our money done,
And now we're dry with the drinkng o't
We'r a dry at the &c.

This ſong is now come to an end,
And we giren o'er the thinking o't,
We left not a groat but fpent it all
When we left of the drinking o't
FINISO foul fa' &c.