And linket at it in her sark!

Now Tam, O Tam! had they been queans

A’ plump and strapping in their teens;

Their sarks, instead o’ creeshie flannen,

Been snaw-white seventeen hundred linen!

Thir breeks o’ mine, my only pair,

That ance were plush, o’ guid blue hair,

I wad hae gi’en them aff my hurdies,

For ae blink o’ the bonnie burdies!

But wither’d beldams, auld and droll,