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Farewell, Beggarly Scotland.
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Farewell, farewell, beggarly Scotland.Cold and beggarly poor countrie;
If ever I cross thy border again,
The muckle deil must carry me.
There's but one tree in a' the land,
And that's the bonny gallows tree;
The very nowte look to the south,
And wish that they had wings to flee.
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Farewell, farewell, beggarly Scotland,Brose and Bannocks, crowdy and kale!
Welcome, welcome, jolly old England,
Laughing lasses and foaming ale!
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That out I laughed loud laughters three,
And if I cross the Sark again,
The muckle deil maun carry me.
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Farewell, farewell, beggarly Scotland,Kilted kimmers, wi' carroty hair,
Pipers, who beg that your honors would buy
A bawbee's worth of their famished air.
I'd rather keep Cadwallader's goats,
And feast upon toasted cheese and leeks,
Than go back again to the beggarly North,
To herd 'mang loons with bottomless breeks.
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