Double Down - Twa Recruiting Sergeants lyrics

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Twa Recruitin' Sergeants

Twa recruiting sergeants came fra the Black Watch

Tae markets and fairs, some recruits for tae catch

But a' that they 'listed was forty and twa:

Enlist my bonnie laddie an' come awa

Chorus: And it's over the mountain and over the main

Through Gibraltar, to France and Spain

Pit a feather tae your bonnet, and a kilt aboon

Your knee

Enlist my bonnie laddie and come awa with

Me.

Oh laddie ye dinna ken the danger that yer in

If yer horses was to fleg, and yer owsen was to rin

This greedy ole farmer, he wouldna pay yer fee

Sae list my bonnie laddie and come awa wi' me

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With your tattie porin's and yer meal and kale,

Yer soor sowan' soorin's and yer ill-brewed ale,

Yer buttermilk, yer whey, and yer breid fired raw

Sae list my bonnie laddie and come awa

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And it's into the barn and out o' the byre

This ole farmer, he thinks ye never tire

It's slavery a' yer life, a life o' low degree

Sae list my bonnie laddie and come awa with me

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O laddie if ye've got a sweetheart an' a bairn,

Ye'll easily get rid o' that ill-spun yarn

Twa rattles o' the drum aye and that'll pay it a'

Sae list my bonnie laddie and come awa.

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