I'VE GOTTEN A ROCK, I'VE GOTTEN A REEL. Susanna Blamire Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII. 1842 pp. 191-192.

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I'VE GOTTEN A ROCK , I'VE GOTTEN A REEL . Air — The White Cockade . I'VE gotten a rock , I've gotten a reel , I've gotten a wee bit spinning-wheel ; An' by the whirling rim I've found How the weary , weary warl goes round . 'Tis roun' an' roun' the spokes they go , Now ane is up , an' ane is low ; 'Tis by ups and downs in Fortune's wheel , That mony ane gets a rock to reel . I've seen a lassie barefoot gae , Look dash'd an' blate , wi' nought to say ; But as the wheel turn'd round again , She chirp'd an' talk'd , nor seem'd the same : Sae fine she goes , sae far aglee , That folks she kenn'd she canna see ; An' fleeching chiels around her thrang , Till she miskens her a' day lang . There's Jock , when the bit lass was poor , Ne'er trudg'd o'er the lang mossy moor , Though now to the knees he wades , I trow , Through winter's weet an' winter's snow : An' Pate declar'd the ither morn , She was like a lily amang the corn ; Though ance he swore her dazzling een Were bits o' glass that black'd had been . Now , lassies , I hae found it out , What men make a' this phrase about ; For when they praise your blinking ee , 'Tis certain that your gowd they see : An' when they talk o' roses bland , They think o' the roses o' your land ; But should dame Fortune turn her wheel , They'd aff in a dance of a threesome reel .