Randolph published a version c. 1890, Glasgow. Some lines missing.

Lyr. Add: I Gave Her Inches Ane

I gave her inches ane, and she said it was nane,
Thump it in, bore away, Bonnie Laddie O.
I gave her inches twa, and she bid me work awa'.
I gave her inches three, and she said it would need to dee.
I gave her inches four, and her cunt was running o'er.
I gave her inches five, and she swore t'was like to rive.

I gave her inches seven, and she bade me haud it even.

I gave her inches twal', and I gave her bags and all.

Then aye the pentil came and went, and aye the bullets sang,
An' amang the hair ye wadna kent, to wha' the stanes belang.
Oh! Some were fou o' love divine, and some were fou o' brandy,
And mony jobs that day began, may end in Haughmagandie.

Forbidden Fruit, Glasgow, c. 1890, p. 32. In Vance Randolph, 1992, Roll Me Over In Your Arms, vol. 1, "Roll Me Over in the Clover," p. 391.

Comparison is made with chanties, but the form is common to many work and drinking songs; it could equally have come from the land and gone to sea, or v. v..