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7 What fate can be waur, in winter time,

Than rise in the morning early.

A cosey house, and a cantie wife,

Keeps aye a body cheery:

And pantry stow’d wi’ meal and maut,

It answers unco rarely.

But up in the morning na, na na,

Up in the morning early;

The gowans maun glint on bank an’ brae

Ere I rise in the morning early.





BAULDY BAIRD.

Bauldy Baird’s come again,

Bauldy Baird’s come again;

Tell the news through burgh and glen,

Bauldy Baird’s come again!

O Bauldy Baird can buy and sell

Barrels o’ herring, lades o’ meal;

Cheat till the good man be poor,

And putch till the good wife look sour;

Laugh and clatter, curse and han,

Tell a lie wi’ onie man.

Tell the news to a’ ye ken,

That Bauldy Baird’s come again.

Bauldy Baird can drink, I trow,

Till a’ the bodies roun’ be ru’;

Ilka ane that shares his bicker,

Kens how Bauldy pays bis liquor.