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Rattlin roarin Willie
Was sitting at yon boord-en ;
Sitting at yon boord-en'.
And amang gude companie ;
Rattlin, roarin Willie,
Ye're welcome hame to me.*
DUSTY MILLER.
Tune— .r/je Dusty Miller.
Hey, the dusty miller.
And his dusty coat !
He will win a shilling,
Ere he spend a groat.
Dusty was the coat,
Dusty was the colour ;
Dusty was the kiss,
That I gat frae the miller !
Hey, the dusty miller,
And his dusty sack !
Leeze me on the calling
Fills the dusty peck ;
Fills the dusty peck.
Brings the dusty siller :
I wad gie my coatie
For the dusty miller.f
* From Johnson's Musical Museum, Part II. 1788. This song was re-
covered by Burns, who added the last verse in comphrnent to William Dun-
bar, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh, Colonel of what was called the Crochallan
corps, a club of wits, which took its rise at the time of the raising of the
fencible regiments for the French Revolutionary War, and of which the
poet was a member. It is worthy of remark, that there is a modern song
in the Tea-Table Miscellany, to the tune of •' Rantin roarin Willie."
t From Johnson's Musical Museum, Part II. 1788. This is one of the
few old Scottish songs, of which it can be said that the sentiment is in
every respect irreproachable.