Arise, Sally Walker, arise, if you can,
Arise, Sally Walker, and follow your good man;
Come choose to the east, come choose to the west,
Come choose to the very one you love best.
This is a couple married with joy;
First a girl and then a boy,
Seven years after and seven years to come,
This young couple married and begun.
[The Christian name of a girl] made a pudding so nice and sweet,
[Boy’s Christian name] took a knife and tasted it.
Taste love, taste love, don’t say No,
The next Sunday morning
To church we shall go.
Clean the brazen candlesticks,
And clean the fireside,
Draw back the curtains.
And lat’s see the bride.
A’ the men in oor toon leads a happy life,
Except A wife shall he hae, and a widow she shall be;
For look at He paints her cheeks and he curls her hair,
And he kisses the lass at the foot o’ the stair.
—Tyrie (Rev. W. Gregor).
[The form of words at Cullen is the same for the first seven lines, and then the words are:—]
This young couple be married and be done, —Cullen (Rev. W. Gregor). Rise, Sally Walker, rise if you can,
A’ the men in oor toon leads a happy life,
Except —— and he wants a wife.
A wife he shall have, and a widow she shall be,
Except Painting her face and curling her hair,
Kissing
Rise, Sally Walker, follow your gudeman.
Come choose to the east, come choose to the west,
Come choose to the very one that you love best.