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Rh Frae gills to half-mutchkins when ance they're begun, Then Toddy, when ance they are fair on the. O! wad they be wise, like our Johnie and me, An' drink naething stronger than Coffee or Tea, The strongest he drinks now, &c.

A Highland laddie heard of war, Which set his heart in motion, He heard the distant cannon roar— He saw the smiling ocean.

Come weal, come woe, to sea he'd go, And left, one morning early, Lachlomond Ben, and the willow glen, And Jenny that loved him dearly.

He wandered east, he wandered south, But joy he could not find it, But he found out this wholesome truth, And had the sense to mind it.

Of a' the earth, the bonny North, To cherish late and early; Lochlomond Ben, and the willow glen, And Jenny that loved him dearly.