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Rh When Johnnie heard his Bessie's word, fast to the door he ran;

Is that you, Bessukie?—Wow na, man!

Be kind to the bairns a', and weel mat ye be;

And fareweel, Johnnie, quo' she, this is nae me!

This is nae me, &c.

John ran to the minister, his hair stood a' on end,

I've gotten sic a fright, Sir, I fear I'll never mend;

My wife's come hame without a head, crying out most piteously,

Oh fareweel, Johnnie, quo' she, this is nae me!

This is nae me, &c.

The tale you tell, the parson said, is wonderful to me,

How that a wife without a head could speak, or hear, or see!

But things that happen hereabout, so strangely alter'd be,

That I could maist wi' Bessie say, 'tis neither you nor she.

Neither you nor she, quo' he, neither you nor she,

Now na, Johnnie man, 'tis neither you nor she.

Now Johnnie he cam' hame again, and oh! but he was fain,

To see his little Bessukie come to hersel' again.

He got her sitting on a stool, wi' Tibbuck on her knee:

Oh! come awa', Johnnie, quo' she, come awa' to me,

For I've got a nap Tibbuckie, and this is now me.

This is now me, quo' she, this is now me,

I've got a nap wi' Tibbuckie, and this is now me.