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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