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The bonny head and the well fed heir
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The handsome heir o' Linne
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Yonder he stands at his father's gate
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And nobody bids him in
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See where he goes and see where he stands
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The weary heir of Linne
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Yonder he stands on the cold causeway
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And nobody bids him in
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He's sold his father's estate and land
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He's sold it on a day
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Within three-quarters of a year
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He's not one brass penny
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For he has drunk of the wine so clear
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Good company spent his gold
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And now he wanders on the shore
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Hungry, wet and cold
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His nurse at her window she looked out
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Beholding dale and down
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And there she saw this sad young man
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Come walking to the town
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“Come here, come here my child,” she said
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“And rest yourself with me
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I've seen you in much better days
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In jovial company”
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“Give me a slice of your bread, Nursey
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And a bottle of your wine
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I'll pay you for it o'er again
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When I'm the Lord of Linne”
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“You'll get a slice of my bread, my child
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And a bottle of my wine
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But pay me when the seas run dry
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You'll never be Lord of Linne”
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A D E
Then he has turned him right about
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As any mother's son
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So off he has set and found his way
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And straightway came to Linne
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A G
But when he came to the castle strong
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They were all sat down to dine
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A score of nobles there he saw
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Sat drinking at the wine
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Some said, “Give him the beef, the beef”
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Some said, “Give him the bone”
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And some said, “Give him nothing at all
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But let the beggar roam”
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Then up and spake the new-come lord
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A saucy word spoke he
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“Pass round the cup, let my rival sup
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Then send him on his way”
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He's turned him right and round about
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As any father's son
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He's reminded of a leaden key
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His father left with him
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His father left a meagre key
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Just before he died
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He bade him keep it secretly
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Till he was most in need
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D E
Then forth he went, these nobles left
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All drinking in the hall
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And he has found a bolted door
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Below the castle wall
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The key has opened up the door
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Wherein lies all his hope
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But where he thought to find good gold
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There stood a gibbet and rope
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A D E
Under the rope was placed a stool
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All covered o'er with dust
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The father had condemned the son
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His sentence it was just
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The son he sighed, stood on the stool
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Never a word he spoke
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But as he jumped to eternity
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Down the gibbet broke
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A D E
It broke and cracked above his head
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He landed on the floor
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And round him rolling, shining bright
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Was a hidden golden store
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“Oft have I gone with bitter cold feet
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Likewise with legs all bare
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And many days walked at these gates
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With sad sorrow and care"
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"But now my sorrow's past and gone
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Joy has all returned
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Now that I have gold enough
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To buy my lands again”
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As he galloped back through town
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He jubilantly crowed
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And he's called out before them all
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The nurse from out her house
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“Come here, come here my nurse,” he said
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“I'll pay your bread and wine
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Seas ebb and flow as they will
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Yet, I'm the Lord of Linne”
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He's gone up the Gallowgate port
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In tatty hose and gown
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But he was carried by fifteen lords
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When he came back down
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