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Some say kissing's a sin,
 * But I say that winna stand;

It is a most innocent thing,
 * And allow'd by the laws of the land.

If it were a transgression,
 * The ministers it would reprove,

But they, their elders and session,
 * Can do it as well as the lave.

Its lang since it came in fashion,
 * I'm sure it will never be done,

As lang as there's in the nation
 * A lad, lass, wife, or a lown.

What can I say more to commend it,
 * Tho' I should speak all my life;

Yet this will I say in the end o't,
 * Let ev'ry man kiss his ain wife.

Let him kiss her, clap her, and dawt her
 * And gie her benevolence due,

And that will a thrifty wife make her,
 * And sae I'll bid farewell to you.