Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 543. Song—News, lassies, news |
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| THERE’S news, lassies, news, | |
| Gude news I’ve to tell! | |
| There’s a boatfu’ o’ lads | |
| Come to our town to sell. | |
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| Chorus.—The wean wants a cradle, | 5 |
| And the cradle wants a cod: | |
| I’ll no gang to my bed, | |
| Until I get a nod. | |
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| Father, quo’ she, Mither, quo she, | |
| Do what you can, | 10 |
| I’ll no gang to my bed, | |
| Until I get a man. | |
| The wean, &c. | |
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| I hae as gude a craft rig | |
| As made o’yird and stane; | 15 |
| And waly fa’ the ley-crap, | |
| For I maun till’d again. | |
| The wean, &c. | |
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