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ALOW AY KIRK, &e.
WHEN chapman billies leave the street.
And drouthy neebors, neebors meets
As market days are wearing late,
And folk begin to tak’ the gate :
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
And getting fou and unco happy.
We thinkna on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Whare sits our sulky sullen dame,.
Gathering her brows like gathering stormy
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
This truth fand honest Tam o’ Shanter,
As he frae Ayr ae night did canter;
(Auld Ayr, wham ne’er a town surpasses.
For honest men and boney lasses.)
O Tam ! hadst thou been but sae wise,.
As ta’en thy ain wife Kate’s advice!
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
A blethering, blustering drunken bellum;.
That frae November till October,
Ae market-day thou wast na sober;
That ilka melder, wi’ the Miller,
Thou sat as long as thou had siller;
That every naig was ca’d a shoe on,
The smith and thee gat roaring fou on$
WHEN chapman billies leave the street.
And drouthy neebors, neebors meets
As market days are wearing late,
And folk begin to tak’ the gate :
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
And getting fou and unco happy.
We thinkna on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Whare sits our sulky sullen dame,.
Gathering her brows like gathering stormy
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
This truth fand honest Tam o’ Shanter,
As he frae Ayr ae night did canter;
(Auld Ayr, wham ne’er a town surpasses.
For honest men and boney lasses.)
O Tam ! hadst thou been but sae wise,.
As ta’en thy ain wife Kate’s advice!
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
A blethering, blustering drunken bellum;.
That frae November till October,
Ae market-day thou wast na sober;
That ilka melder, wi’ the Miller,
Thou sat as long as thou had siller;
That every naig was ca’d a shoe on,
The smith and thee gat roaring fou on$
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Apparitions > Aloway Kirk, or, Tam o' Shanter, a tale > (13) |
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Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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