Hi,

This is from James Madison Carpenter Collection, JMC/1/11/165, Disc Side 159, 01:43. It is apparently the last Waukrife Mammy variant in the Carpenter collection. I added stanza 5 from the Still version but there is another stanza missing before that. Important is stanza 7, not found in other versions.

Weel Paid Dochter - sung by William Farquhar of Brownhill, Bruxie Scotland (Carpenter Collection 1929-1935)

1. As I went o'er yon high, high hill,
I met a bonnie lassie
She looked at me and I at her
And O but she was sassy.

CHORUS: Tum a riggle dum a diggie dum a darly diddle aye,
Tum a riggle dum a diggie dum a darie.

2. Where are ye going my pretty pretty girl,
Where are ye going my honey?
Right modestly she answered me
An errand tae my mammie.

3. What is your age, my bonnie, bonnie lass
What is your name my honey,
Right modestly she answered me,
I'm achteen yers come Sunday.

4. What is your name, my bonnie, bonnie lass,
What is your name my honey,
Richt modestly she answered me
My mammy calls me Annie.

5. [It's I went tae my Annie's door,
Tae see gin she was wakin',
We's barely spoken bit twa, three words
When the auld wife heard us talkin'.]

6. The auld wife rose tae blow the coals,
Tae see gin she could ken me,
But I kicked the auld wife into the fire
And took tae the fields tae screen me.

7. Quo the auld wife I am a' brunt[1],
An' yet I didna ken him,
And a' for my dochter an' she shall cach't
An' then tae the wiles between them.

8. Sae she's ta'en her by the hair o' the heid,
An' in the middle o' the fleer she brocht her,
An' wis a piece o' guide hazel rung
She's made her a weel paid dochter.

9. O mother dear, I pray forbear,
Or then ye will devour me,
I'd never been guilty 'o sican[2] a crime,
Gin ye hadna deen the same afore me.
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1. Said the old wife I am all burnt,
2. such

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Richie