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Last year at Lady Mary's Fair, when I was on the spree
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I fell in wi' an auld sweetheart, a weaver frae Dundee
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Her company I sought and won, and with her I did go
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But I'll hing my heid in shame to say, I proved her overthrow
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We wandered east, we wandered west, we wandered roond the law
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I said I'd see her hame that night, but hame we never saw
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I kept beside her all the while, resolved tae hae my will
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And by and by we lost our wye at the back o' Reres Hill
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Noo fan we cam tae Reres Hill, a thocht did come to me
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"We can't go home tonight, my dear, it's far over late, ye see
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But the night is warm and in my pooch I hae anither gill
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So we can lie doon here content at the back o' Reres Hill"
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I poured anither nip apiece, tae quieten her alarm
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And fan we awoke next morning', we were locked in each other's arms
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She handed me the bottle, anither glass tae fill
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And she drank my health and store o' wealth at the back o' Reres Hill
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Now may I niver prosper and may I niver thrive
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In anything I take in hand, as lang as I'm alive
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If e'er I cause that lass tae rue the day I had my will
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Success tae Lady Mary's Fair and the back o' Reres Hill