Leeze me on thy bonnie craigie! Blessings on, throat
An thou live, thou'll steal a naigie: If, little nag
Travel the country thro' and thro',
And bring hame a Carlisle cow.
Thro' the Lawlands, o'er the border,
Weel, my babie, may thou furder: succeed
Herry the louns o' the laigh countree, Harry, rascals, low
Syne to the Highlands hame to me. Then
Distinct from either of the foregoing groups are several songs in narrative form, told as a rule from the point of view of an onlooker, but hardly inferior to the others in vitality. In them the personal or dramatic emotion is replaced by a keen sense of the humor of the situation.