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Duncan fleech'd, 10 and Duncan pray'd,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't,
Meg was deaf as Ailsa Craig,"
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Duncan sigh'd baith out and in,
Grat 12 his een baith bleer'd 13 and blin', 11
Spak' o' lowpin' 16 o'er a linn,"'
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Time and chance are but a tide,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't,
Slighted love is sair 17 to bide, 18
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Shall I, like a fool, quo' he,
For a haughty hizzie 13 die ?
She may gae to — France for me !
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
How it comes, let doctors tell,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't,
Meg grew sick as he grew well,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Something in her bosom wrings,
For relief a sigh she brings ;
And 0, her een, they spak' sic things !
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Duncan was a lad o' grace,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't,
Maggie's was a piteous case,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
Duncan couldna be her death,
Swelling pity smoor'd 20 his wrath ;
Now they're crouse 21 and canty 22 baith,
Ha, ha, the wooing o't.
I Tipsy. 2 Cast. > Full. * High. » Askance. o Very.
7 Proud ; saucy. s Made ; forced. ■ At a shy distance. 10 Supplicated flatteringly.
II A remarkably large and lofty rock, rising in the Firth of Clyde, between the coasts of Ayrshire and Kintyre. Is WepL
'3 Bleared. »< Blind. >s Leaping. I8 A waterfall; a precipice. *7 Sore ; painful.
18 Bear; endure. 1B A young girl. zo Smothered. "Cheerful. 2 - Merry.
" Duncan Ghat." " It is generally reported, (says Mr. Stenhouse,) that this lively air was composed by
Duncan Gray, a carter or carman in Glasgow, about the beginning of last century, and that the tune was taken
down from his whistling it two or three times to a musician in that city. It is inserted both in Macgibbon and
Oswald's Collections." See Museum Ulustrations, vol. ii. page 148. The words given in this work are those
written by Burns in December 1792.