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Her daddie forbad, her minnie forbad / Forbidden she wadna be: / She wadna trow't the browst she brew'd, / Wad taste sae bitterlie.
Chorus. -The lang lad they ca'Jumpin John / Beguil'd the bonie lassie, / The lang lad they ca'Jumpin John / Beguil'd the bonie lassie.
A cow and a cauf, a yowe and a hauf, / And thretty gude shillin's and three; / A vera gude tocher, a cotter-man's dochter, / The lass wi' the bonie black e'e. / The lang lad, &c.