‘O gin you’d forsake your bonny ship

And wed a ladie of this countrie,

I would make you lord of a’ this town,

And towns and castles twa or three.’

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‘Should I wed a ladie of this countrie,

In sooth I woud be sair to blame,

For the fairest ladie in fair Scotland

Woud break her heart gin I gaed na hame.’

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