[love]
[3] See note 17 on Halloween, p. 218.
THE RANTIN' DOG THE DADDIE O'T
O wha my babie-clouts will buy? [baby-clothes]
Wha will tent me when I cry? [care for]
Wha will kiss me whare I lie?--
The rantin' dog the daddie o't. [of it]
Wha will own he did the faut? [fault]
Wha will buy my groanin' maut? [ale for the midwife]
Wha will tell me how to ca't? [name it]
The rantin' dog the daddie o't.
When I mount the creepie-chair. [stool of repentance]
Wha will sit beside me there?
Gie me Rob, I seek nae mair,-- [Give]
The rantin' dog the daddie o't.
Wha will crack to me my lane? [chat, alone]
Wha will mak me fidgin' fain? [tingling with fondness]
Wha will kiss me o'er again?--
The rantin' dog the daddie o't.
LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER
Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen, [fine]
And sair wi' his love he did deave me: [sorely, deafen]
I said there was naething I hated like men--
The deuce gae wi'm to believe me, believe me, [go with him]
The deuce gae wi'm to believe me.
He spak o' the darts in my bonnie black een,
And vow'd for my love he was dying;
I said he might die when he liked for Jean:
The Lord forgie me for lying, for lying.
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