Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham

by Unknown

SAIR FAIL’D HINNY.

I was young and lusty,

I was fair and clear;

I was young and lusty,

Many a long year.

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sair fail’d now;

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sin’ I kend thou.

When I was young and lusty,

I could loup a dyke;

But now at five and sixty,

Cannot do the like.

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sair fail’d now,

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sin’ I kend thou.

Then said the awd man

To the oak tree;

Sair fail’d is ’e,

Sin’ I kend thee.

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sair fail’d now;

Sair fail’d hinny,

Sin’ I kend thou.

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