| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs.
I. “Saw ye Johnny Comin’?” | | By Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
| | | “SAW ye Johnny comin?” quo’ she | |
| “Saw ye Johnny comin? | |
| Wi’ his blue bonnet on his head | |
| And his doggie runnin? | |
| Yestreen about the gloamin time | 5 |
| I chanced to see him comin, | |
| Whistling merrilly the tune | |
| That I am a’ day hummin,” quo’ she, | |
| “I am a’ day hummin.” | |
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| “Fee him, faither, fee him,” quo’ she, | 10 |
| “Fee him, faither, fee him; | |
| A’ the wark about the house | |
| Gaes wi’ me when I see him: | |
| A’ the wark about the house, | |
| I gang sae lightly through it; | 15 |
| And though ye pay some merks o’ gear, | |
| Hoot! ye winna rue it,” quo’ she, | |
| “No; ye winna rue it.” | |
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| “What wad I do wi’ him, hizzy? | |
| What wad I do wi’ him? | 20 |
| He’s ne’er a sark upon his back, | |
| And I hae nane to gie him.” | |
| “I hae twa sarks into my kist, | |
| And ane o’ them I’ll gie him; | |
| And for a merk o’ mair fee, | 25 |
| O, dinna stand wi’ him,” quo’ she; | |
| “Dinna stand wi’ him.” | |
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| “Weel do I lo’e him,” quo’ she, | |
| “Weel do I lo’e him, | |
| The brawest lads about the place | 30 |
| Are a’ but haverels to him. | |
| O fee him, faither; lang I trow | |
| We’ve dull and dowie been; | |
| He’ll haud the plough, thrash i’ the barn, | |
| And crack wi’ me at e’en,” quo’ she, | 35 |
| “Crack wi’ me at e’en.” | | | | |
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