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 These lands and possessions my debt for to You winna go round them in a long summer’s

O Allan! O Allan! I’m indebted to thee, It is a debt, dear Allan, I never can pay. O Allan! O Allan! how came you for me? Sure I am not worthy your bride for to be.

How call you me Allan, when Sandy’s my Why call you me Allan? sure you are to For don’t you remember when at school with I was hated by all the rest, loved by thee?

How oft have I fed on yourbread and your Likewise when you had but an handful of p Your cruel hearted father hound at me his d They tore all my bare heels, and rave all my

Is this my dear Sandy whom I lov’d so dear I have not heard of you this many a year; When all the rest went to bed, sleep was frae For thinking on what was become of thee.

My parents were born long before me, Perhaps by this time they are drown’d in the These lands and possessions they left them too And I came for you jewel to share them with

In love we began, and in love we will end; And in joy and mirth cur days we will spend