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Thread #55259   Message #858717
Posted By: curmudgeon
04-Jan-03 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Duncan MacLeary and Janet his Wife
Subject: Lyr Add: DUNCAN MACLEERIE (from The Merry Muses...
From the Legman editionj of the Merry Muses of Caledonia.

DUNCAN MACLEERIE

Tune -- Jocky Mabgill

Dincan Macleerie and Janet his wife,
They gaed to Kilmarnock to buy a new knife;
But instead of a knife, they coft but a bleerie;
We're very weel saird, quo' Duncan Macleerie.

Dincan Macleerie has got a new fiddle,
Its all strung wi' hair and a hole in the middle;
And aye when he plays on't , his wife looks sae cheery,
Very weel done Duncan quo' Janet Macleerie.

Duncan he played 'till his bow it grew greasy;
Janet grew fearfu' and unco uneasy.
Hoot quo' she Duncan, you're unco soon weary;
Play us a pibroch, quo' Janet Macleerie.

Duncan Macleerie he played on the harp,
An' Janet Macleerie she danced in her sark;
Her sark it was short , her c---t it was hairy,
Very weel danc'd, Janet, quo' Duncan Macleerie

Not in any standard Burns collection -- Tom