EBBA 31066
British Library - Roxburghe
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The Colliers Rant.
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AS me and my Marrow was ganning to wark;
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We met with the Devil it was in the dark;
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I up with my pick, it being in the Neit,
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[I] knockd off his Horns likewise his Club feet.
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Follow the horses, Johnny my Lad Oh!
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Follow them through my canny Lad Oh!
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Follow the horses, Johnny my Lad Oh!
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Oh Lad ly away, canny Lad Oh!
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As me and my Marrow was putting the tram,
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The low it went out and my marrow went wrang
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You would have laughd had you seen the Gam
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The Deil gat my marraw but I gat the Tram.
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Follow the Horses etc.
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Oh Marrow, Oh Marrow what dost thou think,
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Ive broken my bottle and spilt a my drink.
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I lost a my shin splints amang the great stanes.
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Draw me t the shaft its time to gane hame.
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Follow the Horses etc.
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Oh! marrow Oh! marrow where hast thou been;
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Driving the drift from off the low seam,
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Driving the drift etc
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Had up the low lad, Deil stop out thy een.
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Follow the Horses etc.
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Oh! marrow, Oh! marrow this is wor pay week,
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Well get penny loaves and drink to our beek;
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And well fill up our bumper and round it shall go.
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Follow the horses Johnny lad Oh!
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Follow the horses etc.
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There is my horse, and there is my tram;
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Twee horns full of grease will make her to gang;
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There is my hoggars, likewise my half shoon,
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And smash my heart marrow, my puttings a done.
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Follow the horses my Johnny Lad Oh!
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Follow them through my canny Lad Oh!
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Follow the horse Johnny my Lad Oh!
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Oh! lad ly away, canny Lad Oh!
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