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 A sail in sight appears !

We hail her with three cheers,

Now we sail,

With the gale,

From the Bay of Biscay, O.

My heart is a breaking, dear tittie,

Some counsel unto me come Jen’,

To anger them a' is a pity;

But what will I do wi’ Tam Glen?

I’m thinking, wi’ sic a braw fellow,

in poortith I might mak a fen',

What care I in riches to wallow,

If I mauna marry Tam Glen.

There’s Lowrie, the Laird o’ Drumeller,

“ Gude day to you,’’ brute, he comes ben:

He brags and he blaws o’ his siller,

But when will he dance like Tam Glen?

My minnie does constantly deave me,

And bids me beware o’ young men;

They flatter, she says, to deceive me;

But wha can think sae o’ Tam Glen?

My daddy says, gin I’ll forsake him,

He’ll gie me gude hunder marks ten,

But, if it’s ordain’d I maun take him,

O wha will I get but Tam Glen?

Yestreen at the Valentine’s dealing,

My heart to my mou gied a sten ;

For thrice I drew ane without failing,

And thrice it was written-Tam Glen.

The last Halloween I was waukin

My droukit sark-sleeve, as ye ken;

His likeness cam up the house staukin,

And the very gray breeks o' Tam Glen!