6 My wife will dance and I will ſing, ſo merrily paſs the day, For I hold it one of the wiſeſt things, to drive dull care away.
The drunken Wife of Galloway Down 'n yon meadow a couple did tarry, The wife ſhe drank naething but wine and canary, To her friends he complain'd of her right early, Oh! gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly, She's drunken her ſtockings, ſae las ſhe her ſhoon, And ſhe has drunken her bonny new gown, She's drunken her ſark, that cover'd her early, Oh gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly. Firſt the drank erummie, and then ſhe drank garie, Syne ſhe has drunken my bonny grey marie, That carried me thro' the dub and the larie, Oh gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly. Wad ſhe drink but her ain things I wazna much care But ſhe drinks my chaiths that I canta weel ſpare, When I'm wi' my goſſips it angers me failry, Oh gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly. My Sunday's coat ſhe has laid a wad, And the best blue bonnet e'er was on my head, At kirk or at market I'm cover'd but barely, Oh gin my wife was drink hooly and fairly.
