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Walter Scott - Donald Caird`s Come Again
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Chorus
Donald Caird`s come again!
Donald Caird`s come again!
Tell the news in brugh and glen,
Donald Caird`s come again!

Donald Caird can lilt and sing,
Blithely dance the Hieland fling,
Drink till the gudeman be blind,
Fleech till the gudewife be kind;
Hoop a leglin, clout a pan,
Or crack a pow wi` ony man;
Tell the news in brugh and glen,
Donald Caird`s come again.

Donald Caird`s come again!
Donald Caird`s come again!
Tell the news in brugh and glen,
Donald Caird`s come again!

Donald Caird can wire a maukin,
Kens the wiles o` dun-deer staukin`,
Leisters kipper, makes a shift 
To shoot a muir-fowl in the drift;
Water-bailiffs, rangers, keepers,
He can wauk when they are sleepers;
Not for bountith or reward
Dare ye mell wi` Donald Caird.

Donald Caird`s come again!
Donald Caird`s come again!
Gar the bagpipes hum amain,
Donald Caird`s come again!

Donald Caird can drink a gill
Fast as hostler wife can fill;
Ilka ane that sells gude liquor
Kens how Donald bends a bicker;
When he`s fou he`s stout and saucy,
Keeps the cantle o` the cawsey;
Hieland chief and Lawland laird
Maun gie room to Donald Caird!

Donald Caird`s come again!
Donald Caird`s come again!
Tell the news in brugh and glen,
Donald Caird`s come again!

Sleek the amrie, lock the kist,
Else some gear may weel be mist;
Donald Caird finds orra things
Where Allan Gregor fand the tings;
Dunts of Kebbuck, taits o` woo,
Whiles a hen and whiles a sow,
Webs or duds frae hedge or yard—
`Ware the wuddie, Donald Caird!

Donald Caird`s come again!
Donald Caird`s come again!
Dinna let the Shirra ken,
Donald Caird`s come again!

On Donald Caird the doom was stern,
Craig to tether, legs to airn;
But Donald Caird wi` mickle study,
Caught the gift to cheat the wuddie;
Rings of airn, and bolts of steel,
Fell like ice frae hand and heel!
Watch the sheep in fauld and glen,
Donald Caird`s come again!

Donald Caird`s come again!
Donald Caird`s come again!
Dinna let the Justice ken,
Donald Caird`s come again!
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