Anonymous British Poems

Come, lasses and lads, take leave of your dads,
And away to the may-pole hie;
For every he has got him a she,
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Welling Kattaney

Coin si deya, coin se dado?
Pukker mande drey Romanes,
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Pawnie birks
My men-engni shall be;
Yackors my dudes
Like ruppeney shine:
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Joseph was an old man,
and an old man was he,
When he wedded Mary,
in the land of Galilee.
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'O whare are ye gaun?'
Quo the fause knicht upon the road:
'I'm gaun to the scule.'
Quo the wee boy, and still he stude.
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An eartly nourris sits and sing,
And aye she sings, 'Ba, lily wean!
Little ken I my bairnis father,
Far less the land that he staps in.'
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IN Scotland there was a babie born,
And his name it was called young Hind Horn.
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Ye Highlands, and ye Lawlands,
Oh where have you been?
They have slain the Earl of Murray,
And they layd him on the green.
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Whan bells war rung, an mass was sung,
A wat a' man to bed were gone,
Clark Sanders came to Margret's window,
With mony a sad sigh and groan.
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Down in yon forest there stands a hall:
The bells of Paradise I heard them ring:
It's covered all over with purple and pall
And I love my Lord Jesus above anything.
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