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JOHN THOMSON AND THE TURK—B
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O cam ye in by the House o Rodes,Or cam ye there away?
Or have [ye] seen Johne Tamson?
They say his wife has run away.
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‘O what wad ye do, Johne Tamson,Gin ye had me as I hae thee?’
‘I wad tak ye to the gude green-wood,
And gar your ain hand weil the tree.’
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Johne Tamson peeped and poorly spakeUntill he did his ain men see;
‘O by my sooth,’ quo Johne Tamson,
‘Methinks I see a coming tree.’
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And they hae hanged that grim Soudan,For a' his mirth and meikle pride,
And sae hae they that ill woman,
Upon a scrogg-bush him beside.
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