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EWan McVicar Lyr Add: Hoo Can I Keep My Maidenheid (R Burns) (6) RE: Lyr Add: Burns': Hoo Can I Keep My Maidenheid 06 Sep 99


There's a nice fragment of what looks like an older relative of this song, to be given in Vol 8 of the Greig & Duncan Collection, due out next year or so.

(I've omitted repetitions in lines 1 and 3)

My father bigget a bower for me
To haud me frae the men.
But the win' dung in the gavel o't
And in cam' a' the men.

They're seekin' me the but the hoose
And they'[re seekin' me the ben
And I canna keep my maidenhead
Amo' so many men

Ewan


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