‘Light down, light down, ye auld harper,

And some o your harping let me hear;

‘O williwa!’ quo the auld harper,

Will I get stabling for my mear?’

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And aye he harped and he carped,

Till a’ the lordlings fell asleep;

Syne bundled his fiddles upon his back,

And down the stairs fu fast did creep.