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Tune-"The weaver and his shuttle, O."
My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, / And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; / He bade me act a manly part, though I had ne'er a farthing, O; / For without an honest manly heart, no man was worth regarding, O.