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Gude help the day when royal heads Are hunted like a maukin! Awa' Whigs, &c. A Waukrife Minnie Whare are you gaun, my bonie lass, Whare are you gaun, my hinnie? She answered me right saucilie, "An errand for my minnie." O whare live ye, my bonie lass, O whare live ye, my hinnie? "By yon burnside, gin ye maun ken, In a wee house wi' my minnie." But I foor up the glen at e'en. To see my bonie lassie; And lang before the grey morn cam, She was na hauf sae saucie. O weary fa' the waukrife cock, And the foumart lay his crawin! He wauken'd the auld wife frae her sleep, A wee blink or the dawin. An angry wife I wat she raise, And o'er the bed she brocht her; And wi' a meikle hazel rung She made her a weel-pay'd dochter. O fare thee weel, my bonie lass, O fare thee well, my hinnie! Thou art a gay an' a bonnie lass, But thou has a waukrife minnie. The Captive Ribband Tune--"Robaidh dona gorach." Dear Myra, the captive ribband's mine, 'Twas all my faithful love could gain; And would you ask me to resign The sole reward that crowns my pain? Go, bid the hero who has run Thro' fields of death to gather fame, Go, bid him lay his laurels down, And all his well-earn'd praise disclaim. The ribband shall its freedom lose-- Lose all the bliss it had with you, And share the fate I would impose On thee, wert thou my captive too. It shall upon my bosom live, Or clasp me in a close embrace; And at its fortune if you grieve, Retrieve its doom, and take its place. My Heart's In The Highlands Tune--"Failte na Miosg." Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Chorus.--My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow, Farewell to the straths and green vallies below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
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