 | Goldfinch - 1782 - 318 pages
...get a better, I'fe never tak' ane i' my life. Woo'd, &c. Out fpake the bride's fitter, As (he came in frae the byre, 0 gin I were but married, It's a' that I defire ; But we poor fo'k maun live•fmgle, And do the beft we can ; 1 dinna care what I (hou'd want,... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - Ballads, Scots - 1810 - 286 pages
...were but married, It's a' that desire ; But we puir folk maun live single, And do the best we can ; I dinna care what I should want, If I could but get a man." Wood and married and a', Woo'd and married and a', Was she not very weel off", Was woo'd and married... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Ballads, Scots - 1829 - 414 pages
...Gin I canna get a better, I'se ne'er tak ane i' my life. Out spake the bride's sister As she came in frae the byre ; 0 gin I were but married, It's a'...But we poor folk maun live single, And do the best that we can ; 1 dinna care what I shou'd want If I cou'd get but a man.* * From Herd's Collection,... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...my life, Woo'd and married and a'. Out spake the bride's sister, As she came in frae the byre: " O gin I were but married, It's a' that I desire But...poor folk maun live single. And do the best we can, I dinna ken what I should want If I cou'd get but a man. Woo'd and married and a'. THE BUTTERFLY WAS... | |
 | Robert Burns - English poetry - 1849 - 906 pages
...married, It's a* that 1 desire ; Bat we puir folk nuiin live single, And do the beet we can ; 1 diana care what I should want, If I could but get a man." Woo'd and married and a', Woo'd and married and a', Wat the not very wcel off, Wat u-uo'ii and married... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 588 pages
...canna get a better, I'se ne'er take ane i' my life.' " Out and spake the bride's sister, As she came in frae the byre ; ' 0 gin I were but married, It's a'...But we poor folk maun live single, And do the best that we can ; I dinna care what we shou'd want, If I cou'd but get a man.' "] BOOK op SPORTS. — Will... | |
 | Ballads, Scots - 1869 - 312 pages
...married, &c. Out spak the bride's sister, As she cam in frae the byre ; 0 gin I were but married, It 's a' that I desire : But we poor folk maun live single,...care what I should want, If I could but get a man. Wood and married, &c. SONG XVI. THE BLYTHSOME "BRIDAL." BY FRANCIS SEMPLE OF BELTREES. Fy, let us all... | |
 | David Herd - Ballads, Scots - 1870 - 328 pages
...Ife never tak ane i' my life. Woo'd, and married, &c. Out fpake the bride's fifter, As fhe came in frae the byre ; 0 gin I were but married, It's a' that I defire; But we poor fo'k maun live fingle, And do the befl we can ; 1 dinna care what I fhou'd want,... | |
 | Folk songs, Scots - 1872 - 638 pages
...Gin I canna get a better, Iso never tak ane i' my life. Out spake tho bride's sister, As she came in frae the byre ; 0 gin I were but married, It's a' that I desire : But we poor fo'k maun live single, And do the best we can ; 1 dinna caro what I shou'd want, If I could but get... | |
 | Mary Carlyle Aitken - 1874 - 398 pages
...better, I'se never tak' ane i' my life. Out spake the bride's sister, As she came in frae the byre ; O gin I were but married, It's a' that I desire ; But...poor folk maun live single, And do the best we can ; I dinna care what I should want If I could but get a man. Printed first in 1776 ; but it is of much... | |
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Willie wad ne'er ha'e ta'en ye, Had he kent ye as weel as I; For ye're baith proud and saucy And no for a puir man's wife; Gin I canna get a better, I'se ne'er tak' ane i' my life." Out spake the bride's sister, As she cam' in frae the byre: "0 gin I... 
