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OO'D and married and a'

marry'd and woo'd and a',

The dandilly toast of the parish

is woo'd and married a'.

The wooers will now ride thinner.

and by, when they wonted to ca',

'Tis needless to speer for the lassie,

that's woo'd and marry’d and a'.

The grass had nae freedom of growing,

sae lang as she wasna awa',

Nor in the town cou'd there be flowing,

for wooers that wanted to ca';

For drinking, and dancing, and broolzies,

and boxing, and shaking of fa's,

The town was for ever in toolzies,

but now the lassies awa'.woo'd, &c.

Had they kend her as well as I did.

their errand 'twad hae been but sma',

She neither kent spinning nor carding,

nor baking, nor brewing at a'.

But the wooers ran a' mad upon her,

because she was bonny and bra',

And sae I dread will be seen on her,

when she's by hand and awa’ wood, & c.