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Air-"The Mill, mill, O."
When wild war's deadly blast was blawn, / And gentle peace returning, / Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, / And mony a widow mourning; / I left the lines and tented field, / Where lang I'd been a lodger, / My humble knapsack a' my wealth, / A poor and honest sodger.