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 * With my old wife sitting by.

And our bairns and our oys all around us, O.

He began in the world wi' naething, O, And we've jogg'd on and toil'd for the ae thing, O,
 * We made use of what we had,
 * And our thankful hearts were glad,

Then we got the bit meat and the cleathing, O. We had liv'd all our lifetime contented, O, Once the day we became first acquainted, O;
 * 'Tis true we've been but poor,
 * And we are so to this hour,

But we never repin'd nor lamented, O.

We ne'er thought of schemes to be wealthy, O, ways that were cunning or stealthy, O,
 * But we always had the bliss,
 * And what further could we wiss,

be pleas'd wi' ourselves, and be healthy, O.

What tho' we canna boast of our guineas, O, We have plenty of Jockies and Jeanies, O,
 * And these, I'm certain, are
 * More desirable by far,

Than a pock full of poor yellow sleenies, O.

We have seen many wonder and ferlie, O, changes that almost are yearly, O,