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 How call you me Allan when Sandy's my name?

Why call you me Allan ? sure you were to blame?

For dont you remember when at school with thee,

I was hated by all the rest but loved by the?

How oft have I fed on your bread & your cheese?

Likewise when you had but an handfull of peas,

Your cruel hearted father hound at me his dogs,

They tore all my bare heels, and rave all my rags.

Is this my dear Sandy whom I loved so dear?

I have not heard of you this many an year;

When all the rest went to bed, sleep was frae me,

For thinking on what was become of thee,

My parents were born lang before me,

Perhaps by this time they are drown’d in the sea,

These lands and possessions they left them to me,

And I came for you my, jewel, to share them with thee.

In love we began, and in love we will end,

And in joy and mirth our days we will spend,