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HOOLY AND FAIRLY.
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Hoo - ly
and fair
hoo
and fair - ly,
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Oh, gin my wife wad drink hoo - ly and fair - ly !
Doun in yon meadow a couple did tarry :
The guidwife she drank naething but sack and canary
The guidman complain'd to her friends richt early —
Oh, gin my wife wad drink hooly 1 and fairly !
Hooly and fairly, hooly and fairly,
Oh, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly !
First she drank Crummie, and syne she drank Gairie, 2
And syne she drank my bonnie gray marie,
That carried me through a' the dubs and the lairie —
Oh, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly !
She drank her hose, she drank her shoon,
And syne she drank her bonnie new goun ;
She drank her sark that cover'd her rarely —
Oh, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly !
Wad she drink but her ain things, I wadna care,
But she drinks my claes that I canna weil spare ;
When I 'm wi' my gossips it angers me sairly —
Oh, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly !
My Sunday's coat she 's laid it in wad,
And the best blue bonnet e'er was on my head ;
At kirk and at mercat I 'm cover'd but barely —
Oh, gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly !
Moderately.
The two cows.