De'il Take The War! / Songs and Lyrics

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W:De'il take the war, that hurried Willy from me, 
W:Who to love me just had sworn. 
W:They made him captain, sure, to undo me: 
W:Woe is me, he'll ne'er return. 
W:A thousand loons abroad will fight him, 
W:He from thousands ne'er will run. 
W:Day and night I did invite 
W:To stay safe from the sword and gun: 
W:I used alluring graces, 
W:With muckle kind embraces, 
W:Now sighing, then crying, tears dropping fall. 
W:And had he my soft arms 
W:Preferred to wars alarms, 
W:By love grown mad, without Man of Gad, 
W:I fear in my fit had granted all! 
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W:2.
W:I washed and patched to make me look provoking, 
W:Snares that they told me would catch the men, 
W:And on my head a huge commode sat cocking, 
W:Which made me show as tall again; 
W:For a new gown too I paid muckle money, 
W:Which with golden flowers did shine.
W:My love well might think me gay and bonny; 
W:No Scotch lass was e'er so fine. 
W:My petticoat I spotted, 
W:Fringe too with thread I knotted, 
W:Lace shoes, and silk hose, garter full over knee. 
W:But oh! the fatal thought; 
W:To Willy these are naught, 
W:Who rid to towns, and rifled with dragoons, 
W:When he, silly loon, might have plundered me!

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