A Braw Wooer-Ewan MacColl

[ti:A Braw Wooer] [ar:Ewan MacColl] [al:Essential Masters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.66]A Braw Wooer - Ewan MacColl [00:03.25]Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen [00:06.58] [00:07.85]And sair wi' his love he did deave me [00:10.69] [00:12.19]I said there was naething I hated like men [00:15.42] [00:16.28]The deuce gae wi' m to believe me believe me [00:18.59]The deuce gae wi' m to believe me [00:20.55] [00:23.13]He spak o' the darts in my bonie black een [00:26.07] [00:27.56]And vow'd for my love he was diein [00:30.51] [00:31.88]I said he might die when he liked for Jean [00:35.23]The Lord forgie me for liein for liein [00:36.98]The Lord forgie me for liein [00:39.17] [00:41.58]A weel stocked mailen himsel for the laird [00:44.95] [00:46.30]And marriage aff hand were his proffers [00:48.78] [00:50.33]I never loot on that I ken'd it or car'd [00:53.61]But thought I might hae waur offers waur offers [00:55.91]But thought I might hae waur offers [00:57.92] [01:00.56]But what wad ye think in a fortnight or less [01:03.39] [01:04.41]The deil tak his taste to gae near her [01:06.86] [01:08.19]He up the lang loan to my black cousin Bess [01:11.43]Guess ye how the jad I could bear her could bear her [01:13.98]Guess ye how the jad I could bear her [01:15.84] [01:18.36]But a' the niest week I fretted wi' care [01:20.82] [01:22.25]I gaed to the tryste o' Dalgarnock [01:24.89] [01:25.44]And wha but my fine fickle lover was there [01:29.32]I glowr'd as I'd seen a warlock a warlock [01:31.15]I glowr'd as I'd seen a warlock [01:33.64] [01:36.19]But owre my left shoulder I gae him a blink [01:38.67] [01:39.60]Lest neibors might say I was saucy [01:41.98] [01:43.17]My wooer he caper'd as he'd been in drink [01:46.45]And vow'd I was his dear lassie dear lassie [01:48.21]And vow'd I was his dear lassie [01:50.74] [01:53.05]I spier'd for my cousin fu' couthy and sweet [01:56.08] [01:57.09]Gin she had recover'd her hearing [02:01.37]And how her new shoon fit her auld shachl't feet [02:03.78]But heavens how he fell a swearin a swearin [02:05.66]But heavens how he fell a swearin [02:08.26] [02:10.61]He begg'd for gudesake I wad be his wife [02:13.53] [02:14.54]Or else I wad kill him wi' sorrow [02:17.60] [02:18.76]So e'en to preserve the poor body in life [02:22.53]I think I maun wed him tomorrow tomorrow [02:24.20]I think I maun wed him tomorrow