By anes and twas they a’swam through;
‘Here are we a’safe,’ says the Laird’s Jock,
‘And, poor faint Wat, what think ye now?’
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They scarce the ither side had won,
When twenty men they saw pursue;
Frae Newcastle town they had been sent,
A’English lads, right good and true.
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But when the land-sergeant the water saw,