THE CLERK’S TWA SONS O’ OWSENFORD

1.

1.4 ‘lair,’ lesson. Cp. 16.1.

O I will sing to you a sang,

But oh my heart is sair!

The clerk’s twa sons in Owsenford

Has to learn some unco lair.

2.

They hadna been in fair Parish

A twelvemonth an’ a day,