‘It’s I, Watty Wudspurs, loose the kye,

I winna layne my name frae thee;

And I will loose out the Captain’s kye

In scorn of a’ his men and he.’

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Whan they cam to the Fair Dodhead,

They were a wellcum sight to see,

For instead of his ain ten milk-kye,

Jamie Telfer has gotten thirty and three.

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