Tonart: E major
Verse 1
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There's a fair -haired laddie
goes through the market
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begging sucker
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with a pair of grey lagwings
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etched into a saucer .
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He reminds me of my own boy
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lost in Flodden's glow,
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from the bowing legs
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which sits atop his nose.
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Daybreak finds me in my pot,
coaxing out the hidden flavour
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of the perch I lifted clear
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From the evening river I mend the collar
empty woolen coat
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In the pocket place a mitten
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from a piebald ferret's own
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Half a bar of tallow soap
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Gains me entry to the courtyard
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Where accused men ply their trade
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Or waste away the day
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Hungrily I scan the faces,
only to be found
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By the tired eyes of an old man
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stricken on the ground
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Have you seen a fat lad
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with a mole atop his nose?
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Aye, if I am not mistook,
the very same went free this morning.
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How my heart goes leaping
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Like a hair at cloudburst
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Upon the revelation
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To rock he is returning
Hold my hand and sit you up,
drink a good long draught from my cup,
dip a clump of pandermine
And wrap this coat around
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your shoulder
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Take this jar of pickled herring
They'll hear your belly groan
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And light this faggot when you arise
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To thaw your icy bones
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It's not the seven corporal acts
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or the fear of purgatory
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which behests me to main
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tain a generous refrain.
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I know that if my
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and I were far away,
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I'd wish there was somebody
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there to help him.
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To sing this song is ever so hard
I wish that I could sing it better
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Now we've nearly reached the end,
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we can start to listen again.
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