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 Hark how the waters as they fall,

Loudly my love to gladness call;

The wanton waves sport in the beams,

And fishes play throughout the streams.

Tne circling sun does now advance,

And all the planets round him dance;

Let us as joyful be as they,

Among the birks of Invermay.

Merry may the maid be

that marries the miller,

For foul day or fair day,

he’s ay bringing till her;

Has ay a penny in his purse,

for dinner and for supper,

And gin she pleases, bread and cheese,

and heaps of yellow butter.

When Jamie first did woo me,

I spier’d what was his calling,

Fair maid, says he, O come and see,

you’re welcome to my dwelling:

Though I was shy, yet I could spy,

the truth of what he told me.

An I that his house was warm and couth,

and room in it to hold me.

Behind the door a bag of meal,

and in the kist was plenty,

Of good hard cakes his mither bakes