Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/144

130 "This nicht ye stopped a story braid,

"An' stopped it wi' a curse—

"Last nicht ye told that tale yoursel,

"An' capped it wi' a worse!

"Oh! we're no fou! Oh! we're no fou!

"But plainly we can ken

"Ye're fallin', fallin', fra' the band

"O' cantie single men!"

An' it fell when sirris-shaws were sere,

An' the nichts were lang and mirk,

In braw new breeks, wi' a gowden ring,

Oor Jockie gaed to the Kirk.