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Honest Men and Bonny Lasses.

Written by a young Lady in Aberdeen.

Honest men and bonny lasses,
Honest men and bonny lasses,
Lang may we live and happy be,
Wi’ honest men and bonny lassos.

Green are the fields, and fair the flowers,
How bright the sun that o'er us passes!
But douf and dowie were a’ these,
If nae honest men and bonny lasses.
Honest men, &c.

Gude’s noblest work’s an honest man,
A bonny lass befar’s the fairest;
Of a’ that’s dear in Nature’s plan,
A female fair to me’s the dearest.
Honest men, &c.

How blest and happy is the man,
His days and nights can ne’er seem dreary,
Who has a steady honest friend,
And a bonny lassie for his deary.

ANSWER.

Honest wives that were braw lasses,
Honest wives that were braw lasses,
Lang may we live, and happy be,
Wi’ honest wives that were braw lasses.