Till every rib on the auld wife’s side
Played nick-nack on the wall.
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It’s O the blue, the bonnie, bonnie blue,
I wish the blue may do weel!
For every auld wife that is jealous o her dochter
May be rockit to the d——l in a creel!
C
Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 278.
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