I'm going to echo Jeri's question in recent posts, and since I just read the thread on "Bogie's Bonnie Belle," one of my favorite songs, I'll use it as an example.

I learned the first verse as

As I gaed doon tae Huntly toon ane mornin' for to fee
I met Bodheid of Cairnie, wi' him I did agree
To work his twa best horses, to cart and harry and ploo
And do onything in farmwork I very weel could do.

If I sing "without an accent," am I anglicizing "gaed" "doon" "tae" and "ane" in the first line, "wi'" in the second, "twa," "harry" and "ploo" in the third? That's much harder than singing it as I learned it and destroys rhymes in the bargain.

What do you think?