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Upon that night when fairies light	A
On Cassilis Downans dance	B
Or owre the lays in splendid blaze	C
On sprightly coursers prance	B
Or for Colean the route is ta'en	D
Beneath the moon's pale beams	E
There up the cove to stray and rove	F
Among the rocks and streams	E
To sport that night	A
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Among the bonny winding banks	G
Where Doon rins wimplin' clear	H
Where Bruce ance ruled the martial ranks	G
And shook his Carrick spear	H
Some merry friendly country folks	I
Together did convene	J
To burn their nits and pou their stocks	K
And haud their Halloween	J
Fu' blithe that night	A
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The lasses feat and cleanly neat	L
Mair braw than when they're fine	M
Their faces blithe fu' sweetly kythe	N
Hearts leal and warm and kin'	M
The lads sae trig wi' wooer babs	O
Weel knotted on their garten	M
Some unco blate and some wi' gabs	O
Gar lasses' hearts gang startin'	M
Whiles fast at night	A
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Then first and foremost through the kail	P
Their stocks maun a' be sought ance	O
They steek their een and graip and wale	P
For muckle anes and straught anes	O
Poor hav'rel Will fell aff the drift	Q
And wander'd through the bow kail	P
And pou't for want o' better shift	Q
A runt was like a sow tail	P
Sae bow't that night	A
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Then staught or crooked yird or nane	M
They roar and cry a' throu'ther	H
The very wee things todlin' rin	M
Wi' stocks out owre their shouther	H
And gif the custoc's sweet or sour	H
Wi' joctelegs they taste them	R
Syne cozily aboon the door	H
Wi cannie care they've placed them	R
To lie that night	A
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The lasses staw frae 'mang them a'	S
To pou their stalks of corn	M
But Rab slips out and jinks about	T
Behint the muckle thorn	M
He grippet Nelly hard and fast	U
Loud skirl'd a' the lasses	O
But her tap pickle maist was lost	V
When kitlin' in the fause house	O
Wi' him that night	A
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The auld guidwife's well hoordit nits	O
Are round and round divided	W
And monie lads' and lasses' fates	O
Are there that night decided	X
Some kindle coothie side by side	Y
And burn thegither trimly	P
Some start awa wi' saucy pride	Y
And jump out owre the chimlie	P
Fu' high that night	A
	-
Jean slips in twa wi' tentie ee	Z
Wha 'twas she wadna tell	P
But this is Jock and this is me	Z
She says in to hersel	P
He bleezed owre her and she owre him	A2
As they wad never mair part	B2
Till fuff he started up the lum	C2
And Jean had e'en a sair heart	B2
To see't that night	A
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Poor Willie wi' his bow kail runt	A
Was brunt wi' primsie Mallie	P
And Mallie nae doubt took the drunt	A
To be compared to Willie	P
Mall's nit lap out wi' pridefu' fling	D2
And her ain fit it brunt it	A
While Willie lap and swore by jing	D2
'Twas just the way he wanted	A
To be that night	A
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Nell had the fause house in her min'	M
She pits hersel and Rob in	M
In loving bleeze they sweetly join	M
Till white in ase they're sobbin'	M
Nell's heart was dancin' at the view	E2
She whisper'd Rob to leuk for't	P
Rob stowlins prie'd her bonny mou'	C2
Fu' cozie in the neuk for't	P
Unseen that night	A
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But Merran sat behint their backs	O
Her thoughts on Andrew Bell	P
She lea'es them gashin' at their cracks	O
And slips out by hersel	P
She through the yard the nearest taks	O
And to the kiln goes then	M
And darklins graipit for the bauks	O
And in the blue clue throws then	M
Right fear't that night	A
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And aye she win't and aye she swat	A
I wat she made nae jaukin'	M
Till something held within the pat	A
Guid Lord but she was quakin'	M
But whether 'was the deil himsel	P
Or whether 'twas a bauk en'	M
Or whether it was Andrew Bell	P
She didna wait on talkin'	M
To spier that night	A
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Wee Jennie to her grannie says	O
Will ye go wi' me grannie	M
I'll eat the apple at the glass	O
I gat frae Uncle Johnnie	M
She fuff't her pipe wi' sic a lunt	A
In wrath she was sae vap'rin'	M
She notice't na an aizle brunt	A
Her braw new worset apron	M
Out through that night	A
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Ye little skelpie limmer's face	O
I daur you try sic sportin'	M
As seek the foul thief ony place	O
For him to spae your fortune	M
Nae doubt but ye may get a sight	A
Great cause ye hae to fear it	A
For mony a ane has gotten a fright	A
And lived and died deleeret	A
On sic a night	A
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Ae hairst afore the Sherramoor	H
I mind't as weel's yestreen	M
I was a gilpey then I'm sure	H
I wasna past fifteen	M
The simmer had been cauld and wat	A
And stuff was unco green	M
And aye a rantin' kirn we gat	A
And just on Halloween	M
It fell that night	A
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Our stibble rig was Rab M'Graen	M
A clever sturdy fallow	P
His son gat Eppie Sim wi' wean	M
That lived in Achmacalla	P
He gat hemp seed I mind it weel	P
And he made unco light o't	A
But mony a day was by himsel	P
He was sae sairly frighted	A
That very night	A
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Then up gat fechtin' Jamie Fleck	F2
And he swore by his conscience	O
That he could saw hemp seed a peck	F2
For it was a' but nonsense	O
The auld guidman raught down the pock	G2
And out a hanfu' gied him	C2
Syne bade him slip frae 'mang the folk	H2
Some time when nae ane see'd him	C2
And try't that night	A
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He marches through amang the stacks	O
Though he was something sturtin	M
The graip he for a harrow taks	O
And haurls it at his curpin	M
And every now and then he says	O
Hemp seed I saw thee	A
And her that is to be my lass	O
Come after me and draw thee	A
As fast this night	A
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He whistled up Lord Lennox' march	I2
To keep his courage cheery	A
Although his hair began to arch	I2
He was say fley'd and eerie	A
Till presently he hears a squeak	J2
And then a grane and gruntle	P
He by his shouther gae a keek	J2
And tumbled wi' a wintle	P
Out owre that night	A
	-
He roar'd a horrid murder shout	A
In dreadfu' desperation	M
And young and auld came runnin' out	A
To hear the sad narration	M
He swore 'twas hilchin Jean M'Craw	H
Or crouchie Merran Humphie	E2
Till stop she trotted through them	C2
And wha was it but grumphie	E2
Asteer that night	A
	-
Meg fain wad to the barn hae gaen	M
To win three wechts o' naething	J2
But for to meet the deil her lane	M
She pat but little faith in	M
She gies the herd a pickle nits	O
And two red cheekit apples	O
To watch while for the barn she sets	O
In hopes to see Tam Kipples	O
That very nicht	A
	-
She turns the key wi cannie thraw	H
And owre the threshold ventures	O
But first on Sawnie gies a ca'	J2
Syne bauldly in she enters	O
A ratton rattled up the wa'	K2
And she cried Lord preserve her	H
And ran through midden hole and a'	S
And pray'd wi' zeal and fervour	H
Fu' fast that night	A
	-
They hoy't out Will wi' sair advice	O
They hecht him some fine braw ane	M
It chanced the stack he faddom'd thrice	O
Was timmer propt for thrawin'	M
He taks a swirlie auld moss oak	J2
For some black grousome carlin	M
And loot a winze and drew a stroke	J2
Till skin in blypes cam haurlin'	M
Aff's nieves that night	A
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A wanton widow Leezie was	O
As canty as a kittlin	M
But och that night amang the shaws	O
She got a fearfu' settlin'	M
She through the whins and by the cairn	M
And owre the hill gaed scrievin	M
Whare three lairds' lands met at a burn	M
To dip her left sark sleeve in	M
Was bent that night	A
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Whyles owre a linn the burnie plays	O
As through the glen it wimpl't	A
Whyles round a rocky scaur it strays	O
Whyles in a wiel it dimpl't	A
Whyles glitter'd to the nightly rays	O
Wi' bickering dancing dazzle	P
Whyles cookit underneath the braes	O
Below the spreading hazel	P
Unseen that night	A
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Among the brackens on the brae	H
Between her and the moon	M
The deil or else an outler quey	J2
Gat up and gae a croon	M
Poor Leezie's heart maist lap the hool	P
Near lav'rock height she jumpit	A
but mist a fit and in the pool	P
Out owre the lugs she plumpit	A
Wi' a plunge that night	A
	-
In order on the clean hearth stane	M
The luggies three are ranged	A
And every time great care is ta'en'	M
To see them duly changed	A
Auld Uncle John wha wedlock joys	O
Sin' Mar's year d	A