CVII.
Reading edition
O GUDE ALE COMES.
[These verses are in the museum; the first two are old, the concluding one is by Burns.]
I.
O gude ale comes, and gude ale goes, Gude ale gars me sell my hose, Sell my hose, and pawn my shoon, Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.
II.
I had sax owsen in a pleugh, They drew a’ weel eneugh, I sell’d them a’ just ane by ane; Gude ale keeps my heart aboon.
III.
Gude ale hands me bare and busy, Gars me moop wi’ the servant hizzie, Stand i’ the stool when I hae done, Gude ale keeps my heart aboon. O gude ale comes, &c.