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Aye, billies, I'm a wise-like chap, / I dinna smoke nor drink, / And gin I gi'e my poke a slap / Ye'll hear the siller chink.
My feyther has an aicht-pair[21] fairm / Weel set wi' byre an' stack; / There's mony will obey me / An' tak' their pattern frae me, / But Annie winna hae me / An' my he'rt's near brak'!