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JOHNNY's GREY BREEKS.
WHEN I was in my ſeventeen years,
I was both briſk and bonny O,
The lads they lov'd me far and near,
but I lov'd nane but Johnny O.
He gain'd my heart in twa three days,
he ſpake ſo blyth and kindly O,
And I made him new grey-breeks,
which fitted him moſt finely O.
He is a handſome fellow
his humour is both frank and free,
His locks they are almoſt yellow,
like gold they glitter in mine eye,
His roſy cheeks, his dimpled chin,
his face is fair and ruddy O,
And in a day his grey-breeks,
were neither riv'n nor duddy O.
His breeks are thread bare worn,
they're wider then they us'd to be,
They're tatter'd ſare and torn
and ſare clouted on ilka knee,
But if a live another year,
as I have done right mony O,
I'll make a web of grey claith,
for to be breeks to Johnny O.
To clead him well is my deſire,
and it muſt all my ſtudy be,
But he muſt wear the auld pair,
a wee, tho' they be duddy O.
I'll put a clout upon a clout,
I was both briſk and bonny O,
The lads they lov'd me far and near,
but I lov'd nane but Johnny O.
He gain'd my heart in twa three days,
he ſpake ſo blyth and kindly O,
And I made him new grey-breeks,
which fitted him moſt finely O.
He is a handſome fellow
his humour is both frank and free,
His locks they are almoſt yellow,
like gold they glitter in mine eye,
His roſy cheeks, his dimpled chin,
his face is fair and ruddy O,
And in a day his grey-breeks,
were neither riv'n nor duddy O.
His breeks are thread bare worn,
they're wider then they us'd to be,
They're tatter'd ſare and torn
and ſare clouted on ilka knee,
But if a live another year,
as I have done right mony O,
I'll make a web of grey claith,
for to be breeks to Johnny O.
To clead him well is my deſire,
and it muſt all my ſtudy be,
But he muſt wear the auld pair,
a wee, tho' they be duddy O.
I'll put a clout upon a clout,
