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It is the lads of the Girth-head,

The deil's in them for pride and greed;

For the Galliard, and the gay Galliard's men,

They ne'er saw a horse but they made it their ain.

The Galliard to Nithside is gane,

To steal Sim Crichton's winsome dun;

The Galliard is unto the stable gane,

But instead of the dun, the blind he has ta'en.

"Now Simmy, Simmy of the Side,