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CAN YE LABOUR LEE, YOUNG MAN?
tune: Sir Arch. Grant's Strathspey
From MMC. Original of Burns's song of same name (HH in, 138).
I fee'd a man at Martinmas,
Wi arle pennies three;
But a' the f au't I had to him,
He coudna labour lee.
O can ye labour lee, young man,
O can ye labour lee;
Gae back the road ye cam agin,
Ye shall never scorn me.
A stibble rig is easy plough'd,
An fallow land is free;
But what a silly coof is he,
That carina labour lee.
The spretty bush, an benty knowe,
The ploughman points his sock in,
He sheds the roughness, lays it by,
An ? bauldly ploughs his yokin\
https://archive.org/stream/merrymusesofcaleburn/merrymusesofcaleburn_djvu.txt
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