O hae ye heard the latest news O' Mistress Mucklewame? Her doctor hadna pickit up Her trouble here at hame, Sae they took her tae a speeshalist To fin' oot what was wrang,...
Doon in the placie I hae my hame We're an ill-daein' pack o' deils, For ilk ane gangs a gait o' his ain An the lave play yap at his heels. It's argy-bargy-awfu' wark! An' whiles we come to blows...
[This ballad is of great interest, and, as far as we know, has not hitherto appeared in print. It is certainly not in Child's Collection. It was taken down from the singing of an aged man of 105 years, in Glen Kennaquhair. Inte...
Not mine to let the hair grow long, and talk In raptured accents of the Higher Things, Of all the purple Polyanthus bears, And beating wings. (Oh no! Nothing of that sort!) ...
I. Faith, there's a hantle queer complaints To cheenge puir sinners into saints, An' mony divers ways o' deein' That doctors hae a chance o' seein'. The Babylonian scartit bricks...
The auld man had a girnin' wife, An' she was aye compleenin', For a' kin' o' orra things The body aye was greenin'. It's "I'll try this," and "I'll try that," At ilka adverteesement,...