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H wooer cam' to our town.
AIKENDKUM.*
Verses by Allan Cunningham.
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3. He sighed and praised my
4. There's wit a - neath his
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our town, To our town, to
our door, At our door, at
sma' waist, My round waist, my
grey hair, His grey hair, his
our town. His beard was black, his boots brown. And
our door, Came ben, and stood on our floor. All
jimp waist. My lips he would right fain taste, But
grey hair, To gath - er gowd, and make mair, — He
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mo - tion - less and dumb.
dought-na clos - er come.
still said. Nan - nie come.
His garb was good grey hod - den. His
He gaped and glow'r'd on Nan - nie. Till
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broad one ; And ay his head gaed nod - din'. His name was Ai - ken - drum.
Grran - nie, "Lord, carle, arc ye no can - nie?""'Mangmaids,"quo' Ai - ken - drum,
cough- in', I could -na keep frae laugh - in' At an - cient Ai - ken - drum,
glor - y. Laid lands and bonds a - fore me — 'I've wtdd - ed Ai - ken - drum!
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* fllr. R. Chamber?, in Scottish Songs Prior to Burns, gives this melody with verses entitled " The Piper of Dundee." The verses here
adopted were written for (jeorge Thomson's Select Melodies of Scotland, vol. v., in 1822. Thomson has marked tlie air with the letter " A,"
sUouing that he considered it to be "of remote antiquity." Gow has a version of it in his Hfth Collection as " Aiken Drum." The air is
probably a version of the old tune " Jolinnie's grey lireeks."