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When Jamie vow’d he would be mine
And wan frae me my heart,
O muckle lighter grew my creel,
He swore we’d never part.
The boatie rows, the boatie rows,
The boatie rows fu’weel,
And muckle lighter is the load,
When love bears up the creel.
My kurtch I put upon my head,
And dress’d mysel fu’ braw,
I true my heart was douf and wae,
When Jamie gaed awa.
But weel may the boatie row,
And lucky be her part;
And lightsome be the lassie’s care,
That yields an honest heart.
When Sandy, Jock, and Janetie,
Are up, and gotten lear
They’ll help to gar the boatie row,
And lighten a’ our care,
The boatie rows, the boatie rows
The boatie rows fu’ weel
And lightsome be her heart that been
The merlin and the creel.
