That night enlisted in the core,

Lang after kent on Carrick shore!

(For mony a beast to dead she shot, death

And perish'd mony a bonnie boat,

And shook baith meikle corn and bear, barley

And kept the country-side in fear.)

Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, short-shift, coarse linen

That while a lassie she had worn,

In longitude tho' sorely scanty,

It was her best, and she was vauntie. proud