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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
the Valiant Escape from Dundee, professedly to be sung ' to an.
Excellent Tune, called Bonny Dundee : ' which song begins in a
strain giving it the appearance of a parody or imitation of some
preceding ballad :
Where gottest thou the Haver-mill Bonack ?
Blind booby, canst thou not see ?
I 'se got it out of a Scotchman's wallet, &c.
This song describes the escape of a treacherous and very reckless
profligate from Dundee, and has for a refrain :
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,
Come saddle my horse, and call up my man ;
Come open the gates and let me go free,
For I 'se gang no more to Bonnie Dundee.
The last verse is as follows :
With swords ready drawn they rid to the gate,
Where being denied a free passage through,
The Master and Man they fought at that rate,
That some ran away and others they slew ;
Thus Jockey the Laird and Sawney the Man,
They valiantly fought as Highlanders can,
In spite of the loons, they set themselves free,
And so bid adieu to Bonnie Dundee.
In illustration of which transaction, there is an engraving
representing a hand-to-hand fight at the gate of Dundee — a gate,
however, such as it would have been difficult to find in any
Scotch town in the seventeenth century.
In order to convey the air of Bonnie Dundee to the modern
reader, it may be allowable to present the old song as modified
by Burns :
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