THE YEAR THAT'S AWA'. MBS. DUNLOP. Air-"It's good to be off wi' the old love. HERE'S to the year that's awa'! We will drink it in strong and in sma'; Here's to the sodger who bled, And the sailor who bravely did fa'; Here's to the friends we can trust When the storms of adversity blaw; May they live in our song, and be nearest our hearts, LET VOTARIES O' BACCHUS. ALEXANDER RODGER. Air-"Toddlin hame." LET votaries o' Bacchus o' wine make their boast, And let them drink at wine wha nae better do ken. Your wine it may do for the bodies far south, But a Scotsman likes something that bites i' the mouth, Sae lang we've been nursed on't we hardly can spean. It's now thretty years since I first took the drap, And though what I've drunk might hae slacken'd the sun, I find I'm as dry as when first I begun; For wi' toddlin' but and toddlin' ben, I'm nae sooner slacken'd than drouthy again Your douse folk aft ca' me a tipplin' auld sot, A worm to a still, a sand-bed, and what not; Yet I'll toddle but an' I'll toddle ben, An' laugh at their nonsense wha nae better ken. Some hard-grippin' mortals wha deem themselves wise, Poor scurvy-soul'd wretches, they're no very blate, Gin folk wadna drink, how could government fen'? Yet wae on the tax that maks whisky sae dear, And I'd mak' it rin like the burn after rain. What signifies New'r day ?—a mock at the best, That tempts but poor bodies and leaves them unblest? For ance-a-year fuddle I'd scarce gi’e a strae, Unless that ilk year were as short as a day; Then I'd toddle but an' I'd toddle ben, Wi' the hearty het pint and the canty black hen. I ne'er was inclined to lay-by ony cash, Weel kennin' it only wad breed me more fash And wad toss for a gill wi' my hindmost bawbee; I ne'er kent the use o't but only to spen'. Had siller been made in the kist to lock by, I ance was persuaded to "put in the pin," Oh, leeze me on whisky! it gi'es us new life, An' we'll coup aff our glasses, "Here's to you again!" Written on occasion of the Union between England and Scotland. FAREWELL to a' our Scottish fame, Sae famed in ancient story! To mark where England's province stands: |