ADDRESS TAE A MATTHEW HARDIE FIDDLE.
Ae blink at you an’ ane could tell
That ye’re nae foreign factory shell,
But a Scotch mak’, an’, like mysel’,
Made gey and sturdy;
An’ as for tone, there’ll few excel
Ma guid auld Hardie.
Ye’ve been ma hobbie late and sune,
Noo sax an’ twenty years come June,
An’ noo and than I tak’ a tune;