I’ll lay my best bonnet,
Thou gets a new gude-man afore it be night.
Hoo away, lads, hoo away,
Wi’s a’ be hangid if we stay.
Tak’ up the dead man, and lay him ahint the bigging;
Here’s the Bailey o’ Haltwhistle,
Wi’ his great bull’s pizzle,
That sup’d up the broo’, and syne—in the piggin.
[56] The local pronunciation for Albany.