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T:Guise O' Tough
B:The Scottish Folksinger" 1973, Norman Buchan & Peter Hall
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:Ye'll a' hae heard o'_ Tat-tie Jock Like-wise o' Mut-ton_ Peg-gie.
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w:They had a fair-mie_ owre in Fife, and the name o' it was Craig-ie.
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w:Sing-ing ah rid-dle aye roo dum di do. A rid-dle aye roo dum day. *
W:Ye'll a' hae heard o' Tattie Jock
W:Likewise o' Mutton Peggie.
W:They had a fairmie up in Fife,
W:An' the name o' it was Craigie.
W:
W:Chorus
W:Singin' ah riddle aye
W:Roo dum di do.
W:Ah riddle aye
W:Roo dum day
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W:2. There was ten pair upon that place
W:Likewise ten able men
W:It's five they gaed for tae kinnle the fire
W:An' the ither five oot tae scran
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W:3. Three month we served wi' Tattie Jock
W:An' weel we did agree
W:Till we found oot that the tattie shed
W:Could be open by the bothie key
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W:4. We a' went intae the tattie shed
W:Oor bags were hardly full
W:When Tattie Jock in ahint the door
W:Cried "Aye ma lads stand still"
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W:5. Oh the first he got was Willie Marr
W:The next was Sandy Doo
W:There was Jimmy Grey and Wull Moncur
W:An' Jimmy Pethrie flew
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W:6. Next day some o' us were drivin' dung
W:An' some were at the mill
W:The foreman he was at the ploo'
W:Upon Pitlootie Hill
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W:7. They sent for ten big polismen
W:But nine there only came
W:It dinged them for tae lift's that night
W:Us bein' ten able men
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W:8. The hin'maist lad was the wisest een
W:The best lad o' us a'
W:He jined a man o' war at Leith
W:So's he didnae need tae stand the law
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W:9. When we were gettin' oor sentences
W:We a' stood roond an' roond
W:But when we heard o' the fourteen years
W:Oor tears cam' rollin' doon
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W:10. When Tattie Jock heard tell o' this
W:He cried and grat fu' sore
W:A thousand guineas he would pay
W:If that would clear oor score
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W:11. A bag o' gold he did produce
W:Tae pey it there and then
W:But the lawyer only told him money
W:Wouldna clear his men
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W:12. An' when they mairched us up through Perth
W:We heard the news boy say
W:"It's hard tae see sic able men
W:Rade aff tae Botany Bay"
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W:13. When we arrive in Botany Bay
W:Some letters we will send
W:Tae tell oor friends the hardships we
W:Endure in a foreign land
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