While frighted rattons backward leuk, rats, look
An' seek the benmost bore. inmost hole
A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, nook
He skirled out Encore! shrieked
But up arose the martial chuck, darling
And laid the loud uproar.
Air
Tune: Sodger Laddie
I once was a maid, tho' I cannot tell when,
And still my delight is in proper young men;