We’ve tried the Wansbeck and the Wear,

The Teviot and the Tweed;

An’ we will try them ance again,

When summer suns are fine;

An’ we’ll throw the flies thegither yet,

For the days o’ lang syne.

’Tis mony years sin’ first we sat

On Coquet’s bonny braes,

An’ mony a brither fisher’s gane,

An’ clad in his last claithes.