The Book of Scottish Song/Cuttie's Wedding

Cuttie's Wedding.

[From "Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland," collected by Peter Buchan: Edinburgh, 1828.]

Busk and go, busk and go,
⁠Busk and go to Cuttie's wedding!
Wha wad he the lass or lad
⁠That wadna gang an they were bidden?

Cuttie he's a lang man,
⁠O he'll get a little wifie;
But he'll tak' on to the town loan
⁠When she tak's on her fickie-fykie.

Cuttie he cam' here yestreen;
⁠Cuttie he fell ower the midden;
He wat the house, and tint his shoon,
⁠Courtin' at a cankert maiden.

He sat him doun upon the green,
⁠The lass cam' till him wi' a biddin';
He says. Gin ye were mine, my dame,
⁠Monie ane's be at our weddin'.

Busk and go, busk and go,
⁠Busk and go to Cuttie's wedding!
Wha wad be the lass or lad
⁠That wadna gang an they were bidden?

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