The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
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and no, i must mourn
the pleasures that will ne'er return:
the fort but a hearty ,
when i think on john highndman.
sing hey, &c.
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a pigmy scraper wi' his fiddle,
wha us'd at trystes an' fairs to driddle.
her strappin limb and gausy middle
(he reach'd nae higher)
had hol'd his heartie like a riddle,
an' bwn't on fire.
wi' hand on hainch, and upward e'e,
he 'd his gamut, owo, three,
then in an arioso key,
the oll
set off wi' allegretto glee
his giga so
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