To view the ladies, they went so fine.

2

They drank the wine, and they spilt the beer,

So merrily as the reel went round,

And a’ the healths that was drucken there

Was to the bonnie lass o the hie toun end.

3

Up then spoke a young squire’s son,

And as he spoke it all alone;

‘Oh, I would give a guinea of gold,