The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by David Rorie
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Is naethin' but a mockery!
He dwalt far up a Heelant glen Where the foamin' flood an' the crag is, He dined each day on the usquebae An' he washed it doon wi' haggis. Hech mon! The pawky duke! Hoot ay! An' a haggis! For that's the way that the Heelanters dae Whaur the foamin' flood an' the crag is! He wore a sporran an' a dirk, An' a beard like besom bristles, He was an elder o' the kirk And he hated kists o' whistles! Hech mon! The pawky duke! An' doon on kists o' whistles! They're a' reid-heidit fowk up North Wi' beards like besom bristles! His hair was reid as ony rose, His legs was lang an' bony, He keepit a hoast an' a rubbin'-post An' a buskit cockernony! Hech mon! The pawky duke! An' a buskit cockernony! Ye ne'er will ken true Heelantmen Wha'll own they hadna ony! An' if he met a Sassenach, |
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