6
‘O the nicht is mirk, and very, very wet,
Ye may gang to the door and see;
O there’s nabody been wi me, father,
There’s nabody been wi me.
7
‘But there cam a tod to your bucht, father,
The like o him I neer saw;
Afore you’d gien him the lamb that he took,
Ye’d rather hae gien them a’.