The Blue Bonnets o'er the Border/Johnny Bluster's Wife
JOHNNY BLUSTER'S WIFE.
Johnny Bluster dwalt on Tweed,
The place they ca'd it Traddletony;
Johnny was a joiner gude,
Nane could wield a plain like Johnny.
Lizie Painch was Johnny's wife,
An' silly Matty was her mither;
Sic a wife as Johnny had,
I wadna gi'e a button for her.
Johnny was ance half in love,
His fancy was by beauty haunted;
Heaven shone in Johnny's e'e—
But no the heaven Johnny wanted:
For Johnny courted Lizie Painch,
'Cause Lizie Painch she had the siller,
Sic a wife as Lizie Painch,
I wadna gi'e a button for her.
Lizie's face was like the moon,
Her shonther's maist as braid as Samson's;
Her very picture's like the sign,
That hings aboon auld Robin Tamson's.
But de'il a prin does Johnny care,
Were Lizie like the witch of Endor;
Johnny fattens on her gear—
He wadna gi'e a button for her.