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Thread #59643 Message #951739
Posted By: MMario
13-May-03 - 10:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Meikle Black Deil
Subject: Lyr Add: THE MEIKLE BLACK DEIL
found this while searching for something else (isn't that always the way it happens?) Found it interesting in that when I googled on "Bogle-Bo" only the 'Foggy Dew' versions came up
THE MEIKLE BLACK DEIL Harding B 11(2397)
Ye Priests of Knox, as sly as fox, Wha lang and loud bawl till ye blow, Ye act your part wi' meikleart to keep us fra the bogle-Bo!
O the tremendous Bogle-bo! One foot of him has ne'er a toe; But hoof'd lif goat, tail, horns to boot Has this great lout, the bogle-bo!
Why so inclin'd to spend your wind, sindce, predestin'd to bliss or woe, Preach ye, or not, we'll get our lot In Heav'n, or with - the Bogle Bo!
chorus:
Thou great lock-Hearts, Master of Arts, Of wond'rous parts, though rather slow, Thou striv'st in voin our point to gain If mark'd (like Cain) for the Bogle-Bo!
chorus:
Thou cont'st them fools who Sunday-Schools Set up to teach the Christ-cross row To children poor, as some ill hour, they'll victim fall to the Bogle-Bo!
Chorus:
Come, sir, Don't fron, your brasw new gown, (The Ladies' gift) makes you a beau! And well you chatter 'bout Scripture matter, Especially the Bogle-bo!
Chorus:
What priests in arms, to spread alarms! To work us charms, ere hence we go! Much it must cost, lest we be lost, At last be tost to the Bogle-Bo!
Chorus:
What a gude warl', we ne'er should quazrrel While passing through this vale below; Blithe was we be, were we but free Fra the mighty HE, the Bogle-Bo!