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Glasgow Peggy Paroles

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Paroles de Glasgow Peggy

As when I come tae Glasgow toon;
The hillen trips were right before me,
And the bonniest lass that e'er I saw,
She lived in Glasgow, they called her Peggy

Their chief did meet her father soon,
And O! but he was wondrous angry;
He said, Ye may tak my owsen and kye,
But ye maunna tak my bonnie Peggy.
'O haud your tongue, ye gude auld man,
For I've got coos and ewes already;
I come na to see your owsen or kye,
But I will tae your bonny Peggy.

He set her on his jet-black horse,
And he himsel had a fine grey naigie,
And they are on mony miles to the north,
And nane wi them but the bonny Peggy.

I got now a thousand sheep,
A' grazin on yon hills sae bonny,
And ilka hundred a shepherd has,
Altho I be but a Hieland laddie.

Ox and sheep are bidden good enough
but corn stacks are mickel better It's a' plowd and sawn already;
I am Lord Donald o the isles,
And why sud na Peggy be calld ma lady?

And seein' all yon castles and towers
The sun shines down sae bright an bonny
I am Lord Donald o the isles,