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| LAST May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen, | |
| And sair wi’ his love he did deave me; | |
| I said, there was naething I hated like men— | |
| The deuce gae wi’m, to believe me, believe me; | |
| The deuce gae wi’m to believe me. | 5 |
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| He spak o’ the darts in my bonie black e’en, | |
| And vow’d for my love he was diein, | |
| I said, he might die when he likèd for Jean— | |
| The Lord forgie me for liein, for liein; | |
| The Lord forgie me for liein! | 10 |
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| A weel-stocked mailen, himsel’ for the laird, | |
| And marriage aff-hand, were his proffers; | |
| I never loot on that I kenn’d it, or car’d; | |
| But thought I might hae waur offers, waur offers; | |
| But thought I might hae waur offers. | 15 |
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| But what wad ye think?—in a fortnight or less— | |
| The deil tak his taste to gae near her! | |
| He up the Gate-slack to my black cousin, Bess— | |
| Guess ye how, the jad! I could bear her, could bear her; | |
| Guess ye how, the jad! I could bear her. | 20 |
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| But a’ the niest week, as I petted wi’ care, | |
| I gaed to the tryst o’ Dalgarnock; | |
| But wha but my fine fickle wooer was there, | |
| I glowr’d as I’d seen a warlock, a warlock, | |
| I glowr’d as I’d seen a warlock. | 25 |
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| But owre my left shouther I gae him a blink, | |
| Lest neibours might say I was saucy; | |
| My wooer he caper’d as he’d been in drink, | |
| And vow’d I was his dear lassie, dear lassie, | |
| And vow’d I was his dear lassie. | 30 |
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| I spier’d for my cousin fu’ couthy and sweet, | |
| Gin she had recover’d her hearin’, | |
| And how her new shoon fit her auld schachl’t feet, | |
| But heavens! how he fell a swearin, a swearin, | |
| But heavens! how he fell a swearin. | 35 |
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| He beggèd, for gudesake, I wad be his wife, | |
| Or else I wad kill him wi’ sorrow; | |
| So e’en to preserve the poor body in life, | |
| I think I maun wed him to-morrow, to-morrow; | |
| I think I maun wed him to-morrow. | 40 |
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