Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Tea-table miscellany, or, A collection of choice songs, Scots and English

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But having nae tenants,
O Jenny, Jenny,
To buy ought I ne'er have
A penny, quoth he.
The borrowftoun merchants
Will fell ye on tick,
For we maun hae braw things,
Abeit they foud break.
When broken, frae care
The fools are fet free,
When we make them lairds
In the abbey, quoth ihe.
The Soger Laddie*
MY foger laddie is over the fea,
And he will bring gold and money to me ;
And when he conies hame, he'll make me a lady, j
My blefllng gang with my foger laddie.
My doughty laddie is handfome and brave,
And can as a foger and lover behave';
True to his country, to love he is Heady,
There's few to compare with my foger laddie.'
Shield him ye angels, frae death in alarms,
Return him with lawrels to my langing arms.
Syne frae all my care ye'll pleafantly free me,
When back to my wilhes my foger ye gie me.
O foon may his honours bloom fair on his brow,
As quickly they muft, if he get his due :
For in noble a&ions his courage is ready,
Which makes me delight in my foger laddie.