Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 375. Song—The Deuks dang o’er my Daddie |
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| THE BAIRNS gat out wi’ an unco shout, | |
| The deuks dang o’er my daddie, O! | |
| The fien-ma-care, quo’ the feirrie auld wife, | |
| He was but a paidlin’ body, O! | |
| He paidles out, and he paidles in, | 5 |
| An’ he paidles late and early, O! | |
| This seven lang years I hae lien by his side, | |
| An’ he is but a fusionless carlie, O. | |
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| O haud your tongue, my feirrie auld wife, | |
| O haud your tongue, now Nansie, O: | 10 |
| I’ve seen the day, and sae hae ye, | |
| Ye wad na ben sae donsie, O. | |
| I’ve seen the day ye butter’d my brose, | |
| And cuddl’d me late and early, O; | |
| But downa-do’s come o’er me now, | 15 |
| And oh, I find it sairly, O! | |
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