 | Scottish songs - 1852 - 356 pages
...the wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearthstane Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy : ' Who'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy ? This song originally... | |
 | Ballads, Scots - 1854 - 356 pages
...the wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearthstane Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy : Who'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy ? This song originally... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 366 pages
...wind and rain Bla'n's o'er the house and byre. He sits beside a clean hearthstane Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy : Who'd be a king — -a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy ? This song originally... | |
 | David Herd - Ballads, Scots - 1869 - 380 pages
...mither bakes, And bannocks were na fcanty; A good fat fow, a fIeeky cow Was ftandin in the byre ; Whilll lazy poufs with mealy moufe Was playing at the fire....Who'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy? MAGGY LAUDER. '\T7"HA wad na be in love Wi' bonny M AGGI E LAUDER? A piper met her gaun to... | |
 | David Herd, Sidney Gilpin - Ballads, Scots - 1870 - 324 pages
...bids me tak the miller ; For foul day and fair day He's ay bringing till her ; For meal and malt me does na want, Nor ony thing that's dainty ; And now...on your gate, you bladderfkate, My name is MAGGIE LAUDER. MAGGIE, quoth he, and by my bags, I'm fidging fain to fee thee ; Sit down by me, my bonny bird,... | |
 | Folk songs, Scots - 1872 - 638 pages
...the wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth stano Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy : Who'd be a king— a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy ? THE AULD MAN'S MEAR'S... | |
 | Mary Carlyle Aitken - 1874 - 398 pages
...clean hearth stane Before a rousing fire, With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which lows him o'er fu' nappy : Who'd be a king — a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy ? CLXXL TAK' IT, MAN, TAK' IT. David Webster. When I was a miller in Fife, Losh ! I thought... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...wind and rain Blaw's o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth stane, Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy : Who'd be a king—a petty thing— When a miller lives so happy ? ROBERT CRAWFORD. 1690—1733.... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...wind and rain Blaw's o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth stane, Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy : Who'd be a king — a petty thing — When a miller lives so happy ? ROBERT CRAWFORD. I690—I733.... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 256 pages
...wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearth-stane, Before a rousing fire. With nut-brown ale he tells his tale, Which rows him o'er fu' nappy. VVha'd be a King—a petty thing, When a miller lives so happy? ALLAN RAMSAY. 1686-1758.... | |
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Nor ony thing that's dainty ; And now and then a keckling hen To lay her eggs in plenty. In winter, when the wind and rain Blaws o'er the house and byre, He sits beside a clean hearthstane Before a rousing fire ; With nut-brown ale he tells his tale,... 
