I spier'd at neebour Bauldy Strang,
Wha's they I see?
"Quo' he, Ilk cream-fac'd pawky chiel
Thought he was cunning as the diel,
And here they cam' awa to steal
Jenny's bawbee."
Copies of this latter song may be seen in Johnson's Scottish Musical Museum, edit. 1839, vol. v. p. 435.; and in Graham's Songs of Scotland, 1848, vol. ii. p. 48.
Edward F. Rimbault.
The old Scotch ballad with the above title, on which Sir Alexander Boswell, Bart., founded his humorous song, with the same name, may be found in The Book of Scottish Songs, recently published in The Illustrated London Library, p. 229.
J. K. R. W.