But I’m a broken man mysel’,

Wi’ her and her annuity.

Her broozled flesh and broken banes

Are weel as flesh and banes can be;

She beats the toads that live in stanes

An’ fatten in vacuity!

They die when they’re exposed to air—

They canna thole the atmosphere;

But her! expose her onywhere,

She lives for her annuity.