Corries - Johnny Lad lyrics

rate me

I bought a wife in Edinburgh for a bawbee.

I got a farthing back again tae buy tobacco wi'.

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And wi' you and wi' you and wi' 'you Johnny Lad.

I'll dance the buckles off my shoon

Wi' you, my Johnny Lad.

As I was walking early I chanced to see the Queen,

She was playing at the fitba' wi' the lads in Glasgow

Green.

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The captain o' the ither side was scoring wi' great

Style,

So the Queen she cried a polisman and she clapped him

In the jyle.

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Noo Samson was a michty man. He focht wl' cuddies' jaws

And he won a score o' battles wearing crimson flannel

Drawers.

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There was a man o' Nineveh and he was wondrous wise.

He louped intae a bramble bush and scratched oot baith

His eyes.

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And when he saw his eyes wis oot he wis gey troubled

Then

So he louped intae anither bush and scratched them in

Again.

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Noo Johnny is a bonny lad, he is a lad o' mine.

I've never had a better lad and I've had twenty-nine.

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