Legal and other lyrics; with explantory notes and a glossary . an readily shaw : Tis that when my sillers gane, my coat I then can pawn,An get anither can at the Sign o the Craw. Lai de daudle, &c. The last time I was sober, ae morning in October,I foregathered wi a robber Avha clinked my cash awa :But not een the horned deil frae me can ever stealWhat Ive gien them for a gill at the Sign o the Craw. Lai de daudle, &c. I wadna gie a sneeshin to hear a blockhead screechin,Himsel an ithers fashin, cause a lassies ran awa:Contented here I am, sae Ill een take aff my dram,Till I fa into a dwam at
Legal and other lyrics; with explantory notes and a glossary . an readily shaw : Tis that when my sillers gane, my coat I then can pawn,An get anither can at the Sign o the Craw. Lai de daudle, &c. The last time I was sober, ae morning in October,I foregathered wi a robber Avha clinked my cash awa :But not een the horned deil frae me can ever stealWhat Ive gien them for a gill at the Sign o the Craw. Lai de daudle, &c. I wadna gie a sneeshin to hear a blockhead screechin,Himsel an ithers fashin, cause a lassies ran awa:Contented here I am, sae Ill een take aff my dram,Till I fa into a dwam at the Sign o the Craw. Lai de daudle, &c. 135 fflu UXHe has come ofoet to Cure ftfr. ? Ant— J/) Milkers aye giowerin o er inc. V wife shes come ower to cure mi —For naething on earth bulto cure me :\* wa8 deein o1 a. com- V\ fort, an1 peace, An my wife has come owi i to cure ,,,- doubi I was ill when a thing gaed weel,An I didna ken whal wa -^ml« for me ;Mv sleep \\ mn, an my body Bae roun \ Bui my wife has come ower—an1 shell cure 136 MY WIFE HAS COME (AVER TO CURE ME. My wife has come ower to cure me, My wife has come ower to cure me; She cuist up her place where she gat meat an claes,An shes come ower the water to cure cheeks were sae red, my heart was sae glad,Bad symptoms they were to alarm me;Preternatural fat, an strength, an a that,But my wife has come ower—an shell cure me. My wife has come ower to cure me, To show the affection she bore me; I was deein o health, an ruined wi wealth, When my wife came ower to cure me. I rose wi the lark, an ate like a shark, A the joys o the angels came ower me; Outrageously right, stark mad wi delight; But my wife has come ower—an shell cure me. My wife has come ower to cure me— For no earthly cause but to cure me; I was horridly weel—my banes hard as steel; But my wife has come hame—an shell cure me. MY WIFE HAS COME OWER TO CURE ME. 137 Oh were she to die, what wad come o me ?What spirits an thrills wad
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