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Rh Ochon, for somebody!

Och hey, for somebody!

I wad do—what wad I not?—

For the sake of somebody.

[ by. Music by Matthew Wilson.]

[ old ditty preserved in a small collection called "The Ballad Book," printed at Edinburgh in 1834.]

[ by to Cromek's Remaius of Nithsdale and Galloway Song, where it is said to be printed from a copy found in Burns's Common Place Book. In the introduction to the Fortunes of Nigel, it will be remembered, Sir Walter Scott speaks of this song in the most laudatory terms.]

! hame! hame! O hame fain wad I be!

O, hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!

When the flower is i' the bud, and the leaf is on the tree,

The lark shall sing me hame to my ain countrie.

Hame, hame, hame! O hame fain wad I be!

O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!

The green leaf o' loyaltie's beginning now to fa';

The bonnie white rose it is withering an' a';

But we'll water't wi' the blude of usurping tyrannie,

And fresh it shall blaw in my ain countrie!

Hame, hame, hame! O hame fain wad I be

O hame, hame, hame, to my ain countrie!