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TO D L E N H A M E.
WHEN I have a fax-pence under my thum.
Then I’ll get credit in ilka town;
But ay, when I’m poor, they bid me gae by ;
O ! poverty parts good company.
Todlen hame, todlen hamc,
O! could na my love come todlen hame ?
Fair fa’ the gude wife, and fend her gude fale.
She gies us white bannocks to drink her brown ale.
Syne if her tippony chance to be fma’,
We’ll tak a gude fcour o’t and ca’ it awa’.
Todlen hame, todlen hame.
As round as a neep I come todlen hame.
My kimmer and I lay down to deep,
And twa pint {loops at our bed feet;
And ay, when we waken’d, we drank them dry:
What think ye of my wee kimmer and I ?
Todlen but, and todlen ben,
Sae round as my love comes todlen hame.
Leez me on liquor, my todlen dow.
Ye’re ay fae gude-humour'd when wetting vour mou’:
When fober, fae four, ye’ll fight wi’ a flee,
That ’tis a blyth fight to the bairns and me.
Todlen hame, todlen hame,
When round as a neep ye come todlen hame.