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Last year at Lady Mary's fair when I was in Dundee
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I fell in with an old sweetheart, and he being on a spree
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His company I did accept and with him I did go
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But to my sad misfortune it proved my overthrow

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We wandered east, we wandered west, we wandered through the lawn
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He said he'd see me home that night, but home I never saw
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He kept beside me all the while, resolved to have his will
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And by and by we lost our way at the back of Rare's Hill

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And when we got to Rare's Hill, the laddie said to me
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"We can't go home tonight, my dear, it's far too late, you'll see
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But the night is warm and in my pouch, I've got another gill
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So we can lie down here content, at the back of Rare's Hill"

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And then he poured a nip apiece to quiet all alarm
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When I awoke in the morning, we were locked in each other's arms
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He handed me the bottle, another glass to fill
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And I drank his health in store o' wealth at the back of Rare's Hill

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And then the lad, he said to me, "Oh lassie, do not mourn
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For while I draw the breath of life, from you I'll never turn
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If you will come to yonder town, my wedded wife to be
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We'll be the happiest couple yet 'twas ever in Dundee"

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Well, it's may I never prosper and may I never thrive
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In anything I take in hand, as long as I'm alive
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If e'er I say I rue the day my laddie had his will
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Success to Lady Mary's fair and the back of Rare's Hill