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And when death shall drop the curtain, With applause we'll quit the stage.


 * The auld man's mare's dead;
 * The poor body's mare's dead;
 * The auld man's mare's dead,
 * A mile aboon Dundee.

There was hay to ca', an' lint to lead, An hunder hotts o' muck to spread, An' peat an' tor's an' a' to lead;
 * What mean'd the beast to dee?
 * The auld man's mare's dead, &c.

She had the cauld, but an the cruik, The wheezloch and the wanton yeuk; On ilka knee she had a breuk;
 * And yet the jade to de.
 * The auld man's mare's dead, &c.

She was lang-toothed, an' blench lippit, Haem-houghed, and haggis-fittit, Lang-neckit, chaunler-chaftit,
 * And yet the jade to die.
 * The auld man's mare's dead, &c.