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Mbat'6 a' tbe steer, IRimmer?
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1. win' was at his back, I care - na, sin' he's come, Carle, We were na worth a plack.
2. hae nae mair to fear. Sin Char - lie he is come, Kimmer, We'll hae a jub' - lee year!
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* This air is published in E. A. Smith's Scoiish Minstrel, vol. ii., 1822. The words bear considerable similarity to Terses pubUshed in
CTom&Vs Reliques of Nithsdale amd Galloway Song, p. 112, beginning, "What news to me, Carlin?" About 1825, through the singing of
Miss Stephens, afterwards Countess of Essex, " What's a' the steer, Kimmer?" became very popular.