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SONG,
WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A',
(VERSION TAKEN FROM AN OLD SONG OF THAT NAME.)
1 THE bride she is winsome and bonny,
2 Her hair it is snooded sae sleek,
3 And faithfu' and kind is her Johnny,
4 Yet fast fa' the tears on her cheek.
5 New pearlins are cause of her sorrow,
6 New pearlins and plenishing too,
7 The bride that has a' to borrow,
8 Has e'en right mickle ado.
9 Woo'd and married and a'!
10 Woo'd and married and a'!
11 Is na' she very weel aff
12 To be woo'd and married at a'?
13 Her mither then hastily spak,
14 "The lassie is glakit wi' pride;
15 In my pouch I had never a plack
16 On the day when I was a bride.
17 E'en tak' to your wheel, and be clever,
18 And draw out your thread in the sun;
19 The gear that is gifted, it never
20 Will last like the gear that is won.
21 Woo'd and married and a'!
22 Wi' havins and tocher sae sma'!
23 I think ye are very weel aff,
24 To be woo'd and married at a'!"
25 "Toot, toot!" quo' her grey-headed faither,
26 "She's less o' a bride than a bairn,
27 She's ta'en like a cout frae the heather,
28 Wi' sense and discretion to learn.
29 Half husband, I trow, and half daddy,
30 As humour inconstantly leans,
31 The chiel maun be patient and steady,
32 That yokes wi' a mate in her teens.
[Page 269]33 A kerchief sae douce and sae neat,
34 O'er her locks that the winds used to blaw!
35 I'm baith like to laugh and to greet,
36 When I think o' her married at a'!"
37 Then out spak' the wily bridegroom,
38 Weel waled were his wordies, I ween,
39 "I'm rich, though my coffer be toom,
40 Wi' the blinks o' your bonny blue een.
41 I'm prouder o' thee by my side,
42 Though thy ruffles or ribbons be few,
43 Than Kate o' the Croft were my bride,
44 Wi' purfles and pearlins enow.
45 Dear, and dearest of ony!
46 Ye're woo'd and buikit and a'!
47 And do ye think scorn o' your Johnny,
48 And grieve to be married at a'?"
49 She turned, and she blushed, and she smiled,
50 And she looket sae bashfully down;
51 The pride o' her heart was beguiled,
52 And she played wi' the sleeves o' her gown;
[Page 270]53 She twirled the tag o' her lace,
54 And she nippet her boddice sae blue,
55 Sine blinket sae sweet in his face,
56 And aff like a maukin she flew.
57 Woo'd and married and a'!
58 Wi' Johnny to roose her and a'!
59 She thinks hersel very weel aff,
60 To be woo'd and married at a'.
Source edition
Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL., 1840, pp. 267-270. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [40.17].)
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Other works by Joanna Baillie
- ADDRESS TO A STEAM VESSEL. ()
- ADDRESS TO THE MUSES. ()
- THE BANISHED MAN, ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICH HE IS QUITTING FOR EVER. ()
- THE BLACK COCK, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH AIR, CALLED “THE NOTE OF THE BLACK COCK.” ()
- A CHEERFUL-TEMPERED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER. ()
- DEVOTIONAL SONG FOR A NEGRO CHILD. ()
- A DISAPPOINTMENT. ()
- THE ELDEN TREE. A BALLAD. ()
- EPILOGUE TO THE THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION AT STRAWBERRY HILL, WRITTEN BY JOANNA BAILLIE AND SPOKEN BY THE HON. ANNE S. DAMER, NOVEMBER, 1800. ()
- FRAGMENT OF A POEM. ()
- FY, LET US A' TO THE WEDDING. (AN AULD SANG NEW BUSKIT.) ()
- HOOLY AND FAIRLY. (FOUNDED ON AIN OLD SCOTCH SONG.) ()
- THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. ()
- A HYMN FOR THE KIRK. ()
- HYMN FOR THE SCOTCH KIRK. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- HYMN. ()
- A HYMN. ()
- JOB XIII. 15. ()
- THE KITTEN. ()
- A LAMENTATION. ()
- LINES FOR A FRIEND'S ALBUM. ()
- LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. ()
- LINES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ. ()
- LINES TO A PARROT. ()
- LINES TO A TEAPOT. ()
- LINES TO AGNES BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY. ()
- LONDON. ()
- LORD JOHN OF THE EAST, A Ballad. ()
- MALCOLM'S HEIR. A TALE OF WONDER. ()
- A MELANCHOLY LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- THE MERRY BACHELOR, (FOUNDED ON THE OLD SCOTCH SONG OF “WILLIE WAS A WANTON WAG.”) ()
- THE MOODY SEER, A BALLAD. ()
- A MOTHER TO HER WAKING INFANT. ()
- NIGHT SCENES OF OTHER TIMES. A Poem, in Three Parts. ()
- A NURSERY LESSON (DEVOTIONAL). ()
- A POETICAL OR SOUND-HEARTED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- A PROUD LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS. ()
- A REVERIE. ()
- RHYMES FOR CHANTING. ()
- RHYMES. ()
- A SAILOR'S SONG ()
- SCHOOL RHYMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN. ()
- A SCOTCH SONG. ()
- SECOND DEVOTIONAL SONG. ()
- A SECOND HYMN FOR THE KIRK. ()
- SECOND NURSERY LESSON (ADMONITORY). ()
- SELECT VERSES FROM THE 147TH PSALM. ()
- SIR MAURICE. A Ballad. ()
- SONG WRITTEN FOR THE STRAWBERRY HILL FOUNDLING PLAY, AND SUNG BY MRS. JOURDAIN. ()
- SONG, (FOR A SCOTCH AIR.) ()
- A SONG, (WRITTEN FOR MR. STRUTHER'S COLLECTION OF SONGS.) ()
- SONG, A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD SCOTCH SONG. ()
- SONG, CALLED THE COUNTRY LADY'S REVEILLIE. ()
- SONG, FOR AN IRISH AIR. ()
- SONG, FOR AN IRISH MELODY. ()
- SONG, POVERTY PARTS GOOD COMPANY, ()
- SONG, WRITTEN AT MR. THOMSON'S REQUEST, AS A KIND OF INTRODUCTION TO HIS IRISH MELODIES. ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH AIR, CALLED “THE NEW YEAR'S GIFT.” ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH AIR, CALLED “THE PURSUIT OF LOVE.” ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR A WELCH MELODY. ()
- SONG, WRITTEN FOR AN IRISH AIR. ()
- A SONG, WRITTEN FOR AN IRISH MELODY. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. (TO THE SCOTCH AIR OF “MY NANNY O.”) ()
- ST. JOHN XXI. 1. ()
- ST. LUKE VII. 12. ()
- ST. LUKE XVIII. 16. ()
- ST. MATTHEW V. 9. ()
- A SUMMER'S DAY. ()
- THIRD DEVOTIONAL SONG. ()
- A THIRD HYMN FOR THE KIRK. ()
- THOUGHTS TAKEN FROM THE 93RD PSALM. ()
- THUNDER. ()
- TO A CHILD. ()
- TO MRS. SIDDONS. ()
- TO SOPHIA J. BAILLIE, AN INFANT. ()
- THE TRAVELLER BY NIGHT IN NOVEMBER. ()
- TWO BROTHERS. ()
- TWO SONGS. ()
- VERSES SENT TO MRS. BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1813. ()
- VERSES TO OUR OWN FLOWERY KIRTLED SPRING. ()
- VERSES WRITTEN IN FEBRUARY, 1827. ()
- VOLUNTEER'S SONG, WRITTEN IN 1803. ()
- A WINTER'S DAY. ()