And a’the lee-lang day teaches he;

When day is gane, and night is come,

There’s never a word I mark but three.

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‘The first and second’s Faith and Conscience;

The third is, Johnie, Take head of thee;

But what faith and conscience had thow, traitor,

When thou took my three kye frae me?

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‘And when thou had tane my three kye,